LibreTexts – Free The Textbook • Hacker News Board

I'd prefer to support those making open access textbooks, though; making textbooks open access is certainly necessary but I would rather help out those who believe in that cause by writing them, given the choice. We actually use open access textbooks in our high school and it's preferable to hunting down a PDF and sharing it with all the other students

Re: LibreTexts – Free The Textbook

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Post by saboot » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 6:05 PM UTC

kgarten wrote: post #3

Love the mission and effort ... yet the first book I tried to look at in pdf format gave me a 404 https://batch.libretexts.org/print/Finished/eng-46560/Full.p... From the link below, full pdf: https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Computer_Science/Appl...

I looked up several, most were unfinished, many just a table of contents.

Re: LibreTexts – Free The Textbook

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Post by pessimizer » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 6:34 PM UTC

The content is good, but the UI is not. Clicking through to the original pages this stuff was published to in the cases that I've tried has resulted in far better pages.

The purpose of this site is confusing - it seems to divide larger works into smaller units that you have to browse online. The publishers' pages just offer downloads in your preferred format above a toc linked to a web version of each individual section; I don't know how you could ask for more.

Compare: https://workforce.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Food_Production...

to: https://opentextbc.ca/basickitchenandfoodservicemanagement/

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edited to change the opentextbc.ca link to the right book because libretexts.org linked to the wrong one.