Has anyone bought a .cbv/.pgn ebook from Everyman chess?

I just randomly discovered that the Everyman chess website sells most of their books in "e-book" format. 

They seem to mostly come in .cbv and .pgn format. Which would be fantastic for me, as I absolutely hate entering variations manually into Chessbase. 

If anyone has purchased one of these e-books, can you chime in on how good/bad the ebook format was? I could see how it isn't so good if it loses a lot of the key formatting that makes it lucid on paper, but if there's not much lost, sounds like it would be a no-brainer win to purchase the ebook over the paper version.

I have the everyman e reader app....I think it is beyond excellent. the forward chess and gambit books ones are excellent too. I wholeheartedly recommend them.

I'll def try that ereader app. Have you also tried opening the file on a computer with Chessbase or similar? That's the format I will likely use most of the time.

Just a heads up for any interested - I bought the Cox book "dealing with d4 sidelines as black' in pgn/cbv format  as a download.

The content is excellent as expected, but I gotta hand it to Everyman chess for being the only chess publisher out there to have the courage to sell their books in nonproprietary (pgn) format without requiring some sort of custom reader for it. 

It saves hours and hours of move entry time, and is so convenient that I'm probably going to even re-buy some books covering French and Sicilan lines that I already have a video review of just because it saves so much time to enter the darn moves. 

I only wish that Everyman chess sold more books outside of openings and game collections. In particular, they're really lacking in the endgame training dept, but if they come out with some good ones there, I'm def buying them.

I have purchased several Everyman Chess books.  They sell all versions for one price.  I can read my books in Chessbase, in my Kindle app, or in one of the chess ereader apps on my iPhone that supports pgn.  Depending on what else I am doing, and which computer or device I am using, as well as its operating system, I have used all the versions.   Anytime a book is available from them, I will buy it there.  I used to like ForwardChess, since it had a built in Chess engine in the iPhone/iPad app, but now I am using a Windows laptop/tablet and I prefer to read the books in Chessbase--where I have more processor power for computer analysis and better analysis engines.

Cheers to Everyman!

i prefer e'books too.  it amazes me how many people seem to buy one after another after another?  i mean, it took me more than 2 months to finish jst one!  the first time thru the book i jst played thru main variations... then i went thru again playing the other lines... and it usually takes a third time thru the e'book (4 me anywayz) to play main lines with variations to see how they all fit together.  i wonder how many people actually read a book all the way thru B4 buying an other one?  jst curious . . .

Hi Lasker 1900,

You can email either the pgn file or the Kindle (prc) file to yourself, then open the mail on your iPad and click on the attachment.  If it is a ".prc" file, it will automatically ask if you want to open it with a list of apps.  Pick Kindle.  Similarly, with the pgn file, you can open that with almost any of the chess programs available, my favorite is the Chessbase app, because it supports multiple lines and has an embedded engine.  The app tChess Pro also works for opening pgn files.

All the best,

AnyKnight

Yes.  Everyman has the worst e-reader app on the market. The good news is they come as pgn so you can load them into a better app.

I use Chess PGN master for that purpose.

I also use Chess PGN Master on my Android tablet - it's excellent. It also works fine in combination with Forward Chess app as you can share position from a book and open it in Chess PGN Master where you can play it against an engine or just analyse.