If you’re a Kindle owner, and you also happen to be a programmer or technical enthusiast, you’re going to be excited to know that The Pragmatic Programmers have released many of their eBook versions of their print releases in .MOBI format, which the Kindle and Kindle 2 will very happily understand. The eBooks look great on the Kindle, so it seems like they actually put some effort into layout when they ported their content over to the new format, rather than a generic automatic conversion, which can have unyielding results with technical book layouts and images. If you’ve ever converted a PDF for viewing on the Kindle, you can agree that the experience isn’t completely flawless.

The Pragmatic Programmers offer books about Ruby, Ruby on Rails, iPhone development, high level programming concepts and techniques, and several other topics. They’re worth a gander if the topics interest you. Their eBook FAQ points out that they are continually converting their eBooks to the new formats and hope to have all of their offerings available in .MOBI soon.

With technical books starting to get visually formatted for eBook readers now, the Kindle is starting to make an excellent reference library. When Amazon releases the “Kindle Student” (presuming that’s what they would call it for an educational version), you can expect that more technical references will quickly become available.

Do you know of other technical book publishers who have recently made a Kindle or .MOBI format of their content? Share it with my readers by leaving a comment.