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Aren't these the same docs you can get with a free Apple developer account?

Yes, but formatted as books for iBooks.

They are missing a few chapters compared to the online versions (easy to see which ones; just look at what chapter numbers were skipped in the contents). Still much easier to read than PDFs.

can't you read those like html pages anymore? way better than this, and PDFs

yes you still can, it's just another option

This is newsworthy?

EDIT: This is a serious question... The article is a pointer to iBook versions of free PDFs. I can't imagine why this has been so well received. You can even view the original PDFs in iBooks... What am I missing?

Seconded. PDFs work just fine with Stanza and GoodReader too.

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