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1. #TYPEIT4ME FIGHTS WITH MY CLICKCS PDF#
2. #TYPEIT4ME FIGHTS WITH MY CLICKCS CODE#
3. #TYPEIT4ME FIGHTS WITH MY CLICKCS FREE#

> Seriously, did they just hire an intern to hold the book up to a flat bed scanner?

#TYPEIT4ME FIGHTS WITH MY CLICKCS CODE#

Want to read the code examples? Good luck, they were scanned in unchanged as images, so you can’t zoom in by changing the font size. The formatting is some of the worst I’ve seen, with parts frequently unreadable and cut off. The content is great, but the ebook formatting is some of the worst I’ve seen. > Note – this is about the kindle edition. The content is great, but the ebook formatting is some of the … Here’s an example for “Head First JavaScript”: Check out any great technical book on Amazon, and you’ll see that more often than not the 1-star reviews refer to the Kindle edition. It is bad both from a formatting issue, in addition to the issue that Amazon published Kindle technical books are rarely updated as new revisions of a book are published (see Andy Hunt’s comment by searching for ‘AndyHunt’ in the previously mentioned Hacker News thread about this very issue). While I love my Kindle Voyage for fiction books, the Kindle format is terrible for technical books. Three aspects make me fairly certain that I will not be buying O’Reilly books in the future (which includes steering students away from such books for my online and on campus classes):Īs a reader of technical books, I have learned long ago that the Kindle and ePub version are inferior to PDF. But such is life, and I hope that this change will bring new publishers into the fray as well as inspire old publishers to avoid O’Reilly’s path. Out of all O’Reilly’s books, I will dearly miss the “Head First” series.

It’s funny how Tim O’Reilly has said nothing of this change beyond a tweet whose responses have been anything but supportive. And here we are seven years later with an evisceration of this core mission in the name of a “reinvention”.

#TYPEIT4ME FIGHTS WITH MY CLICKCS FREE#

In 2010 I attended a Drupal conference where Tim O’Reilly spoke about “Open Source in the Cloud Era.” I recall Tim speaking of his company’s core mission which included, front and center, DRM free books. Why is that? It truly does not “make sense” to me. And yet, I can’t help but feel that I’ve lost an old friend. Like my technical peers, I am rarely prone to emotional outbursts instead resorting to the sweet logical song of rationality. It is easy to be outraged by this change, and my peers at Hacker News have done a commendable job in expressing this justifiable outrage. I feel that this sort of arrangement is bad for technical books besides the significant format issues of the Kindle format (discussed below).

Note 1: I have nothing against Amazon’s DRM protected Kindle books, and I have purchased many such books with the understanding that my purchases are a sort of perpetual lease that can be revoked at any time. Both of these options do away with the ownership of electronic books 1. a DRM mobi file that could be removed by Amazon at any time). Instead they have gone down the path of forcing customers to either have a Safari Books Online subscription ($399/year for individuals) or to purchase individual physical/electronic books through Amazon where the electronic version would be the Kindle format (i.e.

#TYPEIT4ME FIGHTS WITH MY CLICKCS PDF#

in epub, mobi aka Kindle format, and PDF formats). The long and short of it is that they are no longer selling DRM-free versions of their technical books (i.e. It feels like I’ve lost an old reliable friend. I’ve been trying to figure out why I’ve been so disturbed by Oreilly Media’s closure of their online bookstore.