I recently obtained a Safari subscription from O'Reilly which has already and will continue to interrupt my planned reading schedule of 1 book a month. The idea behind Safari is to bring as many books from as many different publishers as possible and make them conveniently available for a monthly fee. Safari consists of mostly technical books although a nice selection of business books is available as well, available from multiple big name publishers. This has started to make me a little A-D-D with my reading though as I bounce around from book to book. There are just so many books on there that I want to read that I am having trouble sticking to just one book and reading it all of the way through.

The service is great, but here are a couple of the bad points:

1. Individuals cannot get a subscription to their full business library. The technical library has a limited number of business books in it.

2. Reading everything online is not exactly the most comfortable experience, and Safari does not really go to great lengths to make it easier. They have a print fidelity mode and an html mode, but neither really solves the problem of having to scroll to read.