Ask HN: Any great programming books in text file format?

You could always scrape plain text from the PDF files. It might even be better, since I imagine some books in plain text may be outdated. I did have K&R C and SICP in plain text, but I'm not sure where they've gone off to. Good luck though.

run "pdftotext" utility on pdf to get text version. its plain text and the formatting is lost. wish there was pdf to markdown. hope someone creates it someday and the markdown to pdf as well.

I think there are lot of PDF to TXT online converters. You can simply convert the files and send it to them.

There is a .texi version of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs available here [1]

All of the diagrams have been drawn in ASCII, which is quite cool. It displays well in wordpad and word. Formatting problems in notepad

[1] http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/