O’Reilly, purveyors of books for geeks, programmers, and sysadmins, have made available 160 or so Kindle-friendly titles, with a promise of adding more. The Kindle offerings are available sans DRM directly from the Amazon Kindle store.
I bought a couple of cheaper titles in mobi format direct from O’Reilly and uploaded them to the Kindle. I wasn’t pleased with the way the Kindle rendered them, and have been holding off purchasing any more expensive mobi titles. In the release announcing the availability of certain titles direct from Amazon:
…we’d been directing Kindle owners to oreilly.com, where all of our “ebook bundles” include a Kindle-compatible .mobi version that can be uploaded or emailed to your Kindle. While the table and code issues remained, readers at least had the other, richer formats (EPUB and PDF) for reference. We’ve now updated all of the .mobi files for sale at oreilly.com to display properly on Kindle 2 (basically undoing many of the hacks we’d done to get something passable the first time around). If you own a Kindle and have purchased ebooks from oreilly.com, visit oreilly.com/e from the Kindle browser to download the updated .mobi files directly to your Kindle. While we will also update our ebooks with Amazon as changes are made and errors fixed, they currently have no way of updating that content for customers who already purchased it.
Outstanding! Thanks, O’Reilly! Such after the sale service and commitment is a rarity.
-k-
I don’t code much anymore, but that’s exciting and part of the reason I’m so jacked up about the Kindle.
Scott:
I don’t code as much as I’d like. My first download of Kindle-friendly O’Reilly stuff was Programming Python. I gotta learn my way around that. Old dog, new tricks. The Kindle version was eminently readable, and worth the 30 bucks or so.
Not much reading about coding today, though. Did someone say Talladega?
-k-