Does Anyone Know

[nihilistech]

... if OReilly's PDF versions of their books are accessible (not image pdfs (which I suspect they're not), and not that protected/DRMed PDF)? They have a decent track record, but I don't want to spend a bunch of money on an ebook that I can't read. At the same time, I'd rather buy the Ebook than the paper book.

Comments

[rjl20]

I think I have access to a lot of their ebooks through a program at work. I'll see if that's the case and let you know what I find out.

[rjl20]

Bah. The access I have is to some page-by-page online viewer thing, not the complete PDF. So I have no idea what the PDFs are like. The online viewer thing is a mix: the technical references I checked were all presented as HTML, but the more "fun" books like the one on how to make office toys were presented as searchable (but not cut-and-paste-able) images.

[nihilistech]

Oh well. Thanks for trying though.