I bought the rust book because it looked nice. But it's annoying lugging around a huge book when trying to squeeze it in during work.
Ask HN: Do you still buy physical tech books like “Learn Rust” or “Learn Go”?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you still buy physical tech books like “Learn Rust” or “Learn Go”?
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I like this a lot - particularly as there may be a range of reasons that you can’t get hold of a particular book in physical form. I’ve never used or looked into non-ecosystem e-readers. Do you have any recommendations?
I use the Calibre e-reader with custom style overrides to get my preferred spacing, margins etc. It's ugly out of the box but doesn't require much tweaking to look like Apple Books if you know css. Works great on MacOs/Linux/Windows (I use them all). If a book has hardcoded fonts/styles/spacing I don't like then I use the Calibre editor to remove them. I don't use Calibre as a library tool, I find that pretty annoyin…
Cheers - this works great. I’ll have to stick to using Calibre for library management, unfortunately, as I run a Kindle too.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still buy physical tech books like “Learn Rust” or “Learn Go”?
#183All of my pleasure reading has been ebooks for years now, but I will prefer paper books for actually learning things. I like being able to highlight, underline, etc.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still buy physical tech books like “Learn Rust” or “Learn Go”?
#184I’m always more thrilled on physical paper book falling on my face, when I fall asleep, just to remind me to put it on the night table and turn off the lights. Like “Fluent Python” or “TCP/IP Guide”.