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bdbaddog: The title lists are available here: http://toc.oreilly.com/2008/07/30-ore... – Keith Fahlgren, on July 15, 2008 20:11

Right on!

Keith - Can you publish a link to the list of titles for kindle and sony ebook reader? – bdbaddog, on July 15, 2008 19:22

We've now started releasing titles as eBooks, as you've requested: http://toc.oreilly.com/2008/07/30-ore...

Here's the last update on our end: http://toc.oreilly.com/2008/06/select...

I found the PDF for Squid - The Definitive Guide. I purchased and downloaded the PDF, along with the Linux Networking Cookbook. Using Mobipocket Creator I imported the PDFs and built the ebook file. It works wonderfully on my kindle. The text is fine and works great. The only problem is the table of contents isn't hyperlinked on the Squid Text, like most texts I have converted, it has a few but not the ones that count. The Linux book did have hyperlinks in the TOC and search works great. For the really bored you can edit the HTML page that is generated by mobipocket creator and add the links yourself before you build it. I have done that before for a book I will be using quite extensively as a proof of concept and it worked great but is very tedious and I only recommend it for often used books. Also I have had problems with Pocket creator if you use the default standard compression. The pages tend to turn really slow. Use no compression and you should be fine.

As a note to O'rielly publishing. Thanks for your great books, from searching for Kindle books I am also really pleased with your research into using Kindle. I was pleasantly suprised given Tim's public stance on non-open standards and prior patent disagreements with Amazon, which were resolved semi-amicably from my reading. The texts I am most interesting purchasing for the Kindle tend to be dense text for the most part. From my trials they have worked simply and in less than a few minutes of work. I would love for you to publish a list of kindle friendly PDFs that convert if you decide not to go with a full scale support offering.

Thank you very much

This is fantastic that you are preparing titles for the kindle. I am a solider/network engineer for the US army serving in Iraq and as such I have very limited space for books when I am traveling or even in my room. The kindle has worked wonderfully for me so far. I have quite a few Cisco Press books that work great for me. To sit and read a tech book is usually preferable with the hard copy, but to carry around for reference on a technique while on a trouble call it is wonderful. Could you possibly set up a way to buy the hardcopy and then pay a small amount $5-10 for a kindle version as well. I think that a lot of us traveling people would prefer that. The project I am working on now would be greatly enhanced by Squid the Definitive Guide. Since it isn't available on the kindle I will have to order it and deal with a 1-2 week delay due to military mail, which isn't the best situation.

Thanks