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Re: Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

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Post by Jugurtha »

bimmer44 wrote: post #4

This is a useful resource - thanks for compiling it. I'd suggest allowing users to submit short reviews of each ebook. I'd imagine it would be useful to have some insight as to which book would be most helpful for different circumstances - especially once you start to get some more submissions and there are more books per category.

Similar to this http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gu/the_best_textbooks_on_every_subj...

From the link, here's a quote:

>There have been other pages of recommended reading on Less Wrong before (and elsewhere), but this post is unique. Here are the rules:

- Post the title of your favorite textbook on a given subject.

- You must have read at least two other textbooks on that same subject.

- You must briefly name the other books you've read on the subject and explain why you think your chosen textbook is superior to them.

Re: Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

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Post by caiozo »

Hi guys! Thank you for enjoying my little project! Please to add new books just follow this instruction (https://github.com/devfreebooks/devfreebooks.github.io#how-t...). This is a old project which I'm reviving it, so there are some old ebooks which I will remove or update links soon. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

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Post by caiozo »

Artoemius wrote: post #10

Great resource! I hope it grows to be a huge collection indeed. Also I hope it'll manage to avoid all the potential legal problems when people (knowingly or unknowingly) start submitting books that are not actually freeware.

That's the idea! Grow the list only with free books (piracy won't be accepted).

Re: Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

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Post by caiozo »

throwaway1892 wrote: post #5
Feuilles_Mortes wrote: post #2

Love this idea :). I would suggest making submitting a book easier through an online form, though. The process of forking, editing a raw JSON file, and submitting a pull request seems a little primitive, and has a high cost to those who want to contribute. Thank you for your time and energy making this resource!

Perhaps the barrier to contribution aims to act as a filter against poor/troll contributions. Also the necessary skills to submit a book overlap a lot with the skills of the people who might be interested.

For while, to submit a book must be via GithubPR, but I will work to add a simple google form, to moderate all books in the future.
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