PDF books
26 Jan 2006I just spent $22.50 to buy the Agile Development with Ruby on Rails book in the PDF version, and this is what I get:
We’ll send you an e-mail when the books are ready to download, and that e-mail will also contain the download location, but you might want to save this page, as e-mails have been known to go astray.
Downloads are available for roughly four days after shipping, so be sure to download your purchase fairly promptly.
Wtf? Four days to deliver a PDF? Why did I even bother? What is the point of buying a PDF copy of a book if you don’t get instant gratification? If I’m going to wait four days I might as well get the physical book. I am going to try to cancel my order..
UPDATE: Okay, well, I downloaded it like 10 minutes later. I am not sure what that ominous warning is. Perhaps to freak out lazy, demanding people like myself.
UPDATE 2: Erik points out that my reading skills are lacking.
That doesn’t say you have to wait four days, it says you have to download it before four days are up. I’ll leave it to you to decide what’s worse.