[u-u] O'Reilly book deal, cheap

[William Park]

Ok, a dumb question from Android newbie...

I already downloaded few apps from "Play Store" on my Nexus 5X.  Now,
what is "proper" way to copy all these mobi/epub/pdf files from my
computer to my phone?

I can run "netcat | tar" from Termux (rudimentary Ubuntu environment
with ssh and other command line packages).  But, that's not what people
do normally.
-- 
William

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 07:08:44PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
> 
> | I know and can read .pdf files.
> | But, how do you read .epub and .mobi files?
> 
> They are meant for ebooks.  They have the advantage over PDF of
> allowing the presentation device to reflow the text to fit the
> available screen realestate.  This is very very useful.
> 
> DRM is alway a monkey-wrench in these discussions.  Except this time:
> O'Reilly doesn't use DRM.
> 
> mobi is (now) Amazon's format for Kindle.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobipocket>
> 
> epub is a format used by almost everyone other than Amazon:  a lot of
> ebook devices and publishers.  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB>
> 
> To answer your question: I read epub books on Kobo devices (I have a
> few) and on the Kobo Android app on my phone.
> 
> To expand on this:
> 
> - most O'Reilly books are available in most formats and you can
>   download a copy in each format
> 
> - project Gutenberg seems to offer books in all these formats.
>   I read some of these but have a hard time finding the most
>   interesting ones.
> 
> - for reading on desktop and notebook computers, I use HTML or PDF
> 
> - there is software to display epub and mobi documents on KDE, Gnome,
>   and Windows (at least).  I've never found that useful so I don't
>   know much about them.
> 
> - for reading on a phone or Kobo device, I use epub
> 
> - the Kobo devices and phones can show PDF but the experience panning
>   is very unpleasant.
> 
> - tablets that are like iPads (as opposed to ones with e-ink) are
>   usually pretty good with PDF but have downsides: weight, battery
>   life, expense.
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