PDF of LPYTHW book

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Is there a pdf for the book LPYTHW?
THanks.
B. Rgds,
Orhan

1 Answers

Hi Orhan,

No there's no more PDFs or ePubs for my courses available. They're too difficult to maintain for a few reasons:

  1. Difficult to update since I'd have to send one out every time I made a change.
  2. I have to test them on every reader there is and many people use off-brand readers but never blame the reader developers.
  3. People will put them in jank "book collections" software and the authors of those softwares frequently fail to read standards so meta-data doesn't show up. Again, for some reason, people never tell that developer they're wrong so I'm forced to support a myriad of strange poorly written PDF/ePub software.
  4. The reading devices like Kindle and Apple's Books have weirdly proprietary things they do that you only get access to if your book is sold through their stores.
  5. Amazon pushes the support for their older devices onto me, so if I can't render my book with their jank PalmOS ancient format then they pull my book and I'm force to give refunds because someone is running a Kindle from 1804.

It's simply extremely difficult to manage these things as a solo writer so I just make a website and make it as easy to use as possible. If there's something that's missing that you must have from a PDF then let me know and I'll add it.