Is the monochromatic nature of the Kindle counterproductive to the use of colour in books like Programing Elixir? How is the Kindle for viewing code, diagrams, and illustrations?
drb
sashaafm
AFAIR the colors don’t really matter. Of course they help to read the code but they are not really big snippets of code so you’ll be fine. And you can also get the code online anyways.
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AstonJ
There are definitely some downsides, such as the ones you mention - however I think the upsides outweigh them. But in answer to your questions..
- Kindles are mono - so diagrams will usually be shades of grey (but they’re there and you can ‘zoom’ in)
- Code - obviously not ideal, but since most code snippets are small it’s not usually a big problem because you can change the orientation to landscape which gives you some extra width.
Also, when you buy books from publishers like PragProg you get all digital versions - so when you want to, you can view the PDF version on your computer (ideal for longer code blocks).
Also, publishers like PragProg, Manning etc offer sales every now and again - I think all of the books I have bought have been with 40% off 
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AstonJ
It can yes @drb, but you don’t want to read PDFs on the Kindle, you want .mobi’s which is the official Kindle format and what gives you the full benefit of it (such as dictionary look-up, bookmarks, underlines, the ability to change text size, beautiful crisp text etc). From what I remember PDFs have too much padding as you view them ‘by page’ - though things might have improved since I last looked at a PDF on it.
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ejc123
I have
Elixir in Action
The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook
I’m going to need to start reading up on Phoenix!
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soundstruck
I have read:
- Programming Erlang
- Programming Elixir
- Programming Phoenix
- Introducing Elixir: Getting Started in Functional Programming
I have Metaprogramming Elixir, but need to come back to that one.
I want to get The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook.
I’ve had a good flow going with iBooks + Flexiglass to split my viewport between the books, spacemacs code and browser for learning.
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NobbZ
I do only own a single book about Elixir: Introducing Elixir (Play Store eBook), which only read the first couple of pages. But I am more the guy who just tries and fiddles until it works as expected while googling and looking up reference manuals, instead of reading tutorials or step-by-step-books.
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mkunikow
bentanweihao
Author of The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook