<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Tim Tisdall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tisdall-DXT9u3ndKiSh7up9GtFB90EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">tisdall-DXT9u3ndKiSh7up9GtFB90EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I've found that I can access a lot of the O'Reilly books through the Toronto Public Library website's access to the Safari site. Usually the most popular ones are a "trial" copy which has 2/3rds of the book blanked out, but I've managed to read whole books on there too. Also, you can't download anything so you can only read why you're connected.<span class="HOEnZb"></span><br clear="all">
</div></blockquote></div><br>I'm closing in on 150 ebooks, just on my phone. About a third of these (43) are from O'Reilly (with the vast majority of the remainder coming from FeedBooks). I purchase from them - usually as 50% off deals - because of their stance on DRM.<br>
<br>In fact, to-date I've only ever purchased ebooks from O'Reilly <<a href="https://twitter.com/psema4/status/330413722440978433">https://twitter.com/psema4/status/330413722440978433</a>><br><br>Were they DRM-laden, I wouldn't bother - I'd just get the physical books. I've considered getting a Safari subscription but prefer to own the books. I'd not want to loose access to these materials if I ever decided to unsubscribe from the service: to be certain, the ebooks I've purchased have helped me solve plenty of problems over the last few years.<br>
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