Here’s something not so surprising – I prefer electronic texts to books these days, especially when it comes to documentation and training materials, for a pretty simple reason – you can search them. The best index in the world still misses 99% of the content, and a decent search engine solves that problem. Every time I buy a text I’m off to usenet and the torrent networks to find a digital copy. The challenge is that the digital texts come in a variety of formats. Enter the excellent $12 utility uBook. It handles almost all ebook formats, has some very handy annotation tools, and is a tiny little application that loads fast and has a responsive UI. PC and pocketpc only, but well worth checking out if you’re on that platform.