Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange • Hacker News Board

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

#31

Post by fogus » Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 10:44 PM UTC

- I have an extra copy of Goldberg's "Smalltalk80 the Language and its implementation" (HC)

- Also of the XINU Kernel osdev book (HC)

- A copy of "House of Leaves" (HC)

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

#32

Post by karthikv » Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 10:46 PM UTC

fleitz wrote: post #26

Just wondering, perhaps an opportunity here, is there anything like netflix for books?

There are a few sites that already do that, but I've personally never used them.

http://www.bookswim.com/

http://www.booksfree.com/

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

#33

Post by robobenjie » Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 10:51 PM UTC

fleitz wrote: post #26

Just wondering, perhaps an opportunity here, is there anything like netflix for books?

I use paperbackswap.com which works pretty well. I've mailed maybe 2 dozen books on the service and received maybe 10. It works quite well (though the design sensibilities are a bit off putting).

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

#34

Post by glork » Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 10:58 PM UTC

I've got a relatively new Wicket in Action (Apache Wicket), Code Complete, and Rapid Development. I'd trade for some web programming books (CSS/JS/RoR). Mid-atlantic USA.

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

#35

Post by jules » Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 11:03 PM UTC

Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics by Garrod. I accidentally purchased 2 copies.

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

#36

Post by num1 » Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 11:18 PM UTC

p206 wrote: post #21

I am willing to trade or give away Practical Cryptography by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier.

I would love to accept it, would you like to trade for Rework, Just for Fun, Getting Real, or any of my numerous books on Java/Linux/C/Game development/AI/3D game development?

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

#37

Post by num1 » Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 11:19 PM UTC

glork wrote: post #34

I've got a relatively new Wicket in Action (Apache Wicket), Code Complete, and Rapid Development. I'd trade for some web programming books (CSS/JS/RoR). Mid-atlantic USA.

I'd love Code Complete, however I have no web dev books, anything in graphics or AI interest you?

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

#38

Post by billswift » Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 11:21 PM UTC

jason_slack wrote: post #14

jason_slack wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

REWORK would be great. I am in San Jose. E-Mail me? E-Mail in profile.

I looked at my Profile and it does show my e-mail for sure...Yours does not have one though..am I missing something obvious?

Your email is not visible to others unless you list it again in your "about" section.

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

#39

Post by gte910h » Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 11:21 PM UTC

jason_slack wrote: post #14

jason_slack wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

REWORK would be great. I am in San Jose. E-Mail me? E-Mail in profile.

I looked at my Profile and it does show my e-mail for sure...Yours does not have one though..am I missing something obvious?

There are two places you can put your email. Put it in both if you want it to show up to others.

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

#40

Post by arjn » Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 11:46 PM UTC

Neat!! I had a similar idea a while ago , for any books. The idea was to read a book, then write your name/email in it and leave it somewhere where someone else may pick it up and read. Then they in turn would write their name/emails in it and leave it somewhere, and so on and so forth. It would be cool to see how many people read that book after a couple of months/years.