Real World Haskell on the Kindle 2
March 13th, 2009 by John Goerzen
Many of you already know that if you go to the O’Reilly page for Real World Haskell, you can buy RWH as an ebook. If you do that, you get access to it in several formats immediately: PDF, ePub for the iPhone Stanza reader, and mobi for the Kindle or MobiPocket.
Unfortunately, the Kindle 1 lacked support for some features, such as <pre> tags, that were required for good formatting of technical books. Therefore, although O’Reilly posted a .mobi file from the beginning, the experience on the Kindle 1 wasn’t as good as they would have liked.
The Kindle 2 has improved things in this area. I’m happy to report that O’Reilly has updated the .mobi file on their site to work better with the Kindle 2. I’ve tested it on my Kindle 2, and it works pretty well, though there are a few lingering formatting issues. If you own a Kindle 2, you can buy the ebook from O’Reilly and download the .mobi file. If you already bought the RWH ebook, you can download the updated .mobi file for free from your O’Reilly Emedia page.
I believe that O’Reilly also intends to make Real World Haskell available on the Amazon Kindle store, though this may still be some weeks off yet.
John, Can you please post a picture of RWH on Kindle2? I’d love to see how a technical book would look on Kindle2.
Congrats on the book, by the way!
Just started reading the EPUB version on my commute using the Sony eReader (I bought both electronic & dead-tree copies from O’Rieilly on a recent business trip). It looks good; I suspect your book is going to be what takes me from writing small toys in Haskell to actually using it in practice.
Both code and text are very readable.
Keep up the good work!
John: Alt+Shift+G will take a screenshot and leave it in the documents/ dir…
I know this is not the right place, but I just wanted you to know that, on the book site, many of the interactive examples of chapter 8 on regular expression now show exceptions instead of the results described.
Can you download it if you bout/registered the physical book?
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I’m with Andrew – I have the dead trees version, and I just got a kindle – is there a way for me to get it onto that device without re-purchase?