Whilst perusing the Oracle database documentation, I noticed something which caught my eye:
Mobi and ePub downloads for Oracle documentation
As well as reading the documentation online as HTML or downloading as PDF for viewing on your computer etc, you can also download it in formats (Mobi and ePub) designed for eReaders such as the Kindle and iPad (the latter obviously isn’t “just” an eReader). For information on format support, there’s a handy table on Wikipedia.
It looks like the availability of mobi/epub files isn’t universal. For example, the OBI 11g documentation appears still to be HTML & ZIP only. And whilst the Database documentation doesn’t link to the mobi files on the contents page, only each document’s TOC, the Essbase documentation does:
Why not link to the mobi and epub downloads here too?
But then, when’s the Oracle website ever been consistent 😉
I’m looking forward to having access to the documentation on my Kindle. It’s nicer to read from than a computer screen. It’s also got an awful lot of very good information that’s worth reading when not just looking something up. I’m not talking about reading the column definition of DBA_TABLES at bedtime, but for background education and learning. Never mind swanky OOW presentations, simply reading chapters such as Managing Optimizer Statistics would benefit a lot of people. RTFM, as they say, because they’re not just reference, they’re also the how and the why of what to do.
Oracle documentation on the Kindle
rmoff 
[…] So, how about getting Oracle documentation onto it? You can get the oracle manuals as .pdf versions (as opposed to HTML) so I knew it was possible and that others have done so before. A quick web search will show a few people have done this already – one of the best posts is by Robin Moffat. […]
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