Buy a book from Apress (such as the superb Definitive Guide to Django) and you can get the PDF version for a fiver, so you can keep a copy on your laptop when you are on the road.
What a great idea. I don't want only the PDF - I much prefer to read the dead tree edition. But you can't carry dozens of chunky tech books around with you, so I want the PDF too. Clearly I shouldn't have to pay full whack twice, but the fiver that Apress is asking seems fair.
I wish O'Reilly did this.
Posted to Books and magazines by Simon Brunning at September 04, 2008 03:29 PMOr in this case, you could read the web version of the django book for free @ http://www.djangobook.com/
Another cool Apress deal though is their PDF deal of the day where you can get the PDF copy of whatever book they're offering that day for only $10.
http://apress.com/info/dailydeal
Posted by: Jason on September 4, 2008 05:05 PMYou can at O'Reilly, note the Print+PDF button:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514976/
Not all the books have the option, nor is the price terribly consistent on how much extra for the PDF though. I'm rather confused why its an extra $14 for that particular book $16 for:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596526948/
Or of course, you can get just the PDF, which seems rather high considering you're getting no physical product.
Posted by: Ben Bangert on September 4, 2008 06:37 PMNote that the Apress PDFs are password protected, however. That means some PDF readers cannot open the file, like the one on my Cybook. So I'm forced to read it on the computer monitor which is not nice. I wrote to the Apress support, but they did not provide a solution for this problem.
Posted by: Christoph on September 8, 2008 03:59 PM