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Neat, but .pdf's would have been nice...

• Tycho 16y ago
  Yeah. I got them direct to my iPad though via Goodreader then exported them to Kindle app for reading.
  • Turing_Machine 16y ago
    For those who might be looking for a desktop application, Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/ http://calibre-ebook.com/ is an awesome FOSS ebook manager. Organizes, converts between formats, etc.
    • Gonsalu 16y ago
      Thanks!
    • EnderMB 16y ago
      While Calibre is a brilliant application for basic document management and conversion it should be mentioned that it is highly unlikely that it will convert a PDF eBook perfectly. I've got a bunch of free CS books I've collected over the years and outside of plain-text books it's struggled to convert everything.
    • steveklabnik 16y ago
      As a recent owner of a Sony e-reader, Calibre is really functional, but I don't think I've ever seen a worse interface.
• dlsspy 16y ago
  I'm pretty happy to not see PDFs anymore -- especially for ebooks. I can easily convert these to PDFs, but I can actually read them on my Kindle or iPad. I can't do that the other way around from PDF (though I technically can read a PDF on either, it's a far less pleasant experience).
  • callmeed 16y ago
    What app do you use to read .mobi files on the iPad?
    • roxstar 16y ago
      I don't own an ipad but mobi is pretty popular and easily converted so there should be an app to view them if the apple book app doesn't work. Otherwise you can use calibre to convert it to epub. (Kindle app might do it if it can load books as mobi is native kindle format)
• nikcub 16y ago
  enter the URL of the book in here and select your output format: http://www.docspal.com/ http://www.docspal.com/ (Edit: wow, that was terrible. Not one of the converts worked out properly. apologies if, like me, you downloaded them all)
  • defroost 16y ago
    Thanks for converting those to PDF, unfortunately none of the hyperlinks work either in browser, or in a PDF reader like OS X's preview. Don't know about Windows or Linux.
  • dlsspy 16y ago
    The C one is using the most incredibly small font I've ever seen in a document. It took me a while to realize there was actual content in the pages. Then I zoomed in a thousand or so percent and could make out words.
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• sh4na 16y ago
  Just convert them with Calibre to whatever format you want. Mobi is much better than PDF as a starting point to convert to other formats, ebook formats in general are much more flexible and convertible. Converting from PDF to ebook is such a pain...