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Other than the ability to carry a large library around with you the Kindle is pretty sucky for Programming books - the screen is too small and the formatting to

• rbanffy 16y ago
  The search, however, is unmatched by physical books.
• tom_b 16y ago
  It's carrying the large library around that appeals most to me. I'm attempting to solve the space issues around having many tech books around. So far, I find the Pragmatic and O'Reilly ebooks to be pretty nice on Kindle. Code examples don't always look super. But I sometimes landscape the view (especially on pdfs) and it's much better. But I also tend to read and hack separately anymore these days - reading to drink the bigger picture, then hack and use Google as my language reference . . .
• igorlev 16y ago
  The Kindle DX, on the other hand, has become indispensable to me for reading all kinds of technical books and pdfs. Along with the daily E-book deals from O'Reilly it has almost completely eliminated the need to buy paper technical books. I think a good market for this is in areas with long, public transportation commutes. Those who take the car to work have fewer good use cases for e-readers.