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Cambridge University Press make their books free until May

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Re: Cambridge University Press make their books free until May

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Their ebook reader sucks. You have to go back to the index to advance between chapters. Bad UX, but that's for a reason.

Wow, thanks! That is really bad. I just spent several minutes unsuccessfully trying to get past the front matter. There are also lots of weird text positioning glitches in their SVG (!) version of the book pages.

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I was thinking on similar lines yesterday and today made the decision of making all my ebooks free for the foreseeable future. I made bundles [0][1] so that they can all be downloaded in one shot. There are five books - three of them on regex (Ruby, Python, JavaScript) and two on cli tools (GNU grep and ripgrep, GNU sed). Currently working on GNU awk, which will take another month if I want to include everything I ha…

I'm currently learning some Data Science with Python (and text-wrangling via the CLI) and RegEx is something I got by without, up until now. So thank you so much!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

is this legal?

No. But not all illegal things are immoral.

Limiting the acquisition of knowledge to people with sufficient economic means is immoral, because it means that more than half the worlds population has no means to move forward, even if they are motivated and intelligent.

Re: Cambridge University Press make their books free until May

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Not all books, only some. I remember one of their books [1], it was available for free PDF download for a few months. I downloaded the PDF, then later wanted to read it again and discovered I'd somehow misplaced the PDF. And now it isn't available for free download any more. I was hoping it might be included in this, but it isn't. [1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/atheism-and-agnostic...

This is by Graham Oppy. He and Edward Feser, a Cahtholic philosopher / philosophy professor, recent had two online discussions on theology. YouTube links on Feser's site:

* https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2019/07/debate-with-graham-...

* https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2020/02/discussion-with-gra...

There's a lot of 'bad atheism' out there: folks who attack straw man arguments and get basic things wrong (most of the "New Atheists" fall into this camp). Oppy does not seem to be one of those.

Another good site is "History for Atheists": someone who goes after his fellow atheists for "the misuse of history and the use of biased, erroneous or distorted pseudo history by anti-theistic atheists":

* https://HistoryForAtheists.com

Atheists can be crackpots as much as theists can be.

Re: Cambridge University Press make their books free until May

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I was thinking on similar lines yesterday and today made the decision of making all my ebooks free for the foreseeable future. I made bundles [0][1] so that they can all be downloaded in one shot. There are five books - three of them on regex (Ruby, Python, JavaScript) and two on cli tools (GNU grep and ripgrep, GNU sed). Currently working on GNU awk, which will take another month if I want to include everything I ha…

I'm currently learning some Data Science with Python (and text-wrangling via the CLI) and RegEx is something I got by without, up until now. So thank you so much!

Cool! If you need more resources for cli/python, I've some links collated:

https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/mast...

https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/mast...

Re: Cambridge University Press make their books free until May

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Here you go: https://b-ok.cc/book/5260524/55d50b . Z-lib (above) and Libgen are usually my go-to if I'm not sure I want to (or can't) purchase a book.

is this legal?

Though discussing Sci-Hub and scientific articles, much of this argument applies as well to textbooks and publishing generally:

What the academic publishing industry calls "theft" the world calls "research": Why Sci-Hub is so popular

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4p2rwk/what_th...

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