I've taken advantage of O'Reilly's $4.99 eBook Upgrade offer to convert my shelf of paper tomes into a folder of shiny new eBooks. They come in ePub format which is great for my iPhone and iPad, and Mobi which works well on my Kindle. For the MacBook I've been using PDF which is okay, but suffers in readability terms because the text doesn't reflow to fit the page and font size.
I tried the OS X Kindle Reader app, which is a free download from the App Store, but it's a bit slow and crashy. So I thought "there must be an OS X equivalent of iBooks to read the ePub files", but Apple haven't got around to doing that yet. So now I'm trying Adobe Digital Editions. First impression is that it's slicker than the Kindle Reader. I'll let you know how I get on.
Another tip for O'Reilly eBooks - you can sync them to your Dropbox account so they're always available to your iDevice. Neat!
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