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Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

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Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

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Post by dhoe »

ColbyJackRat wrote: post #48
sytelus wrote: post #47

If you get so excited by limited set of old book, here's something that will keep you awake for many many nights: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/ For couple of $100 bucks you can get unlimited access to virtually every CS/tech book out there. This include brand new ones and even exclusive access to books with future publish date.

You know, you seem pretty out of touch. You are comparing something free with a service that costs "couple of $100 bucks", more specifically $400/year for a subscription. If $400 is so little to you that you can just toss it aside that's all well and good, but that is not the case for a lot of people.. most of whom the subject of this post is aimed.

400$/y is not much for what you get from Safari books, and it's a minor expense for many professionals in the first world.

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Post by bewe42 »

forgotten_pw wrote: post #30
BorisMelnik wrote: post #16

Amazing! Right off the bad I found some great topics: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-6383-8 http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-30241-1 Looked like great reads right off the bad. Thanks OP!

Maybe you already know this, but I think the phrase you're looking for is "right off the bat". I'm not really sure where it comes from though. Just thought you might want some stranger on the internet to correct your usage of idioms (seriously though; I'm not trying to be a dick, just trying to share some knowledge).

baseball analogy?

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Post by userbinator »

Looks like another good collection for archive.org to back up... ;-)

The site works without Javascript and contains direct links to PDFs, which is an unexpected bonus in this age of single-page JS apps and DRM. Very nice.

I wonder if the 2005 ones will also become free in 2016?

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Post by userbinator »

msie wrote: post #27

Sooo many good books! I'm exhausted! Here are some good ones: MPEG Video Compression Standard: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b115884 Chaos and Fractals: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b97624 Proofs from THE BOOK: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-05412-3 Joel on Software: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-0753-5 Programming Challenges: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/…

If you are interested in the first one, I'd recommend this too:

Data Compression

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b97635

Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

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Post by bewe42 »

kevindeasis wrote: post #32

One of the things I've realized just a few days ago was that we need better technology to absorb content efficiently. There are so many books out there that I want to read, but might never be able to read because I will not have enough time. It would be amazing if there was just a way to download a book and understand its contents right into my brain in a matter of minutes.

Matter of minutes might never be possible or even desirable. But I do think learning can be done much more efficiently with the right tools. Working on that on my side projects ;) It comes down to good old note taking and expressing what you have learned in your own words or code.
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