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

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Post by frik » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:37 AM UTC

zappo2938 wrote: post #74

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/…

The Things You Should Never Do, Part One by Joel Spolsky should be mandatory reading for every tech executive.[1] Springer might add more value to the texts by enabling Medium style side comments on an HTML version for readers to either ask for help or for experts to clarify and extend. Use the job posting business model to post jobs in the comments in specific disciplines of the texts to create revenue. [1] http://l…

Chapter 4, page 313 is quite an interesting read (2000 vs 2015 point of view)

The corrected link from page 316 (bottom) - hilarious: http://web.archive.org/web/20001203002400/http://microsoft.c...

Page 325 talks about the porting effort which didn't work out, and the Wasabi language was born: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FogBugz#History

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

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Post by asddubs » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:47 AM UTC

deelowe wrote: post #49

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.

How is this even remotely the same? Most of the Safari catalog isn't textbooks and it's $400 (a couple would be 200 btw) a year.

a couple doesn't necessarily mean two, depending on where you are from. it can also be synonymous with "a few"

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Post by vidarh » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:51 AM UTC

bewe42 wrote: post #57

This is so awesome. Makes and ruins my day. I'm wondering what that means for authors and writing technical books in general though. Have authors a say in this?

Technical subjects are probably the best possible to do this in for both publishers and authors - especially textbooks quickly depreciate in monetary value, but they'll gain a lot of extra exposure for authors and newer titles.

I'm sure they have some classics where they'll lose some sales, but most of these titles will have been superseded by newer books or subsequent editions of the same books long ago.

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

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Post by oddsignals » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:52 AM UTC

Ductapemaster wrote: post #35

bobo123 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great - I've been looking for a good series to have on hand when I want to dive deeper into a math field on an as-needed basis. For example, the Linear Algebra one could be really useful if I decide to get deeper into any Machine Learning stuff - http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-1670-4 It's possible to do things with statistics/ML even without having the greatest grasp on linear algebra, but i…

Although I have not read that book, for linear algebea I would highly recommend Gilbert Strang's book. It's one of the few textbooks for which I would pay full price, even today. Also, his lectures are available on youtube from MIT, and he's quite good.

If you read German, his "Lineare Algebra" was published by Springer in 2003:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-55631-9

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Post by jarmitage » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:53 AM UTC

Interesting books with >4 star Amazon ratings:

The Meaning of Relativity (Einstein) http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-011-6022-3

Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4757-3894-0

The Physics of Musical Instruments http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-21603-4

Introduction to Nanoscale Science and Technology http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b119185

Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray Microanalysis http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4615-0215-9

Structures or Why Things Don't Fall Down http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4615-9074-3

Fundamentals of Power Electronics http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b100747

Advanced Organic Chemistry A/B http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b114222 http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b114293

Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b97397

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

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Post by yarapavan » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:55 AM UTC

For those who are interested in these kind of programs, please see directory of open access books (DOAB) site - http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=subject&uiLanguage=en

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

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Post by singularity7 » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:56 AM UTC

wow

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Post by singularity7 » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:56 AM UTC

wow

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Post by bojo » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 12:01 PM UTC

Ductapemaster wrote: post #35

bobo123 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great - I've been looking for a good series to have on hand when I want to dive deeper into a math field on an as-needed basis. For example, the Linear Algebra one could be really useful if I decide to get deeper into any Machine Learning stuff - http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-1670-4 It's possible to do things with statistics/ML even without having the greatest grasp on linear algebra, but i…

Although I have not read that book, for linear algebea I would highly recommend Gilbert Strang's book. It's one of the few textbooks for which I would pay full price, even today. Also, his lectures are available on youtube from MIT, and he's quite good.

Seems the only version of this book on Springer is in German :(

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

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Post by aravindet » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 12:13 PM UTC

teachingaway wrote: post #14

kfogel wrote: post #6

Is there some sort of announcement from Springer about this? Specifically, one in which they state what the license is, e.g., CC-BY or CC-BY-SA or something like that? I'll bet they attached either the No-Derivs (ND) or Non-Commercial (NC) limitations, though -- would love to be wrong about that. In the PDFs I've looked at so far, they didn't bother to change the copyright statement at the front of the book, so they…

yeah, it looks like they are still under traditional copyright. It's just that the purchase price is $0.00. Free as in beer. Still, that's pretty cool!

The only issue with that is sites like archive.org might not be able to legally cache and serve these.

Edit: It’s still a Very Good Thing.