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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition (ePub)

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Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition (ePub)

#11

Any way of either converting this to PDF or getting it into something Kindle can read? Edit: Found this http://epub2pdf.com/ It's OK... Looks like it might be good for reading on an iPhone, not an iPad. Are the pages supposed to be this tiny or did the converter not do a very good job?

Calibre - http://calibre-ebook.com/ will convert the epub into a mobi file just fine, which can then be read on the Kindle.

Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition (ePub)

#12

It was easy to grab an ePub reader from the Android app market to read this on my phone. I still need to plug my iPad into my computer to "sync" the file to the iPad to read it in iBooks. This is lame IMHO. Back on topic, this is a great book. It got me into Scheme when I first read it 5 years ago (I didn't attend MIT unfortunately)

If you put the URL into Safari on your iPad, it should prompt you to open it in iBooks.

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Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition (ePub)

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post #12

It was easy to grab an ePub reader from the Android app market to read this on my phone. I still need to plug my iPad into my computer to "sync" the file to the iPad to read it in iBooks. This is lame IMHO. Back on topic, this is a great book. It got me into Scheme when I first read it 5 years ago (I didn't attend MIT unfortunately)

If you put the URL into Safari on your iPad, it should prompt you to open it in iBooks.

doesn't work for me. It only offers to open the .epub file in Stanza or GoodReader. iBooks is not shown as a possible choice.

Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition (ePub)

#17
If there is one book that made me think differently about programming its this one.

Oh I did know common lisp, and other languages like C/C++, Python etc. But till then it was all about language features being built in for me. Which is all good and useful.

Only problem is that I didn't realize that all this can be built upon some very simple fundamental concepts. So when this book started with _only_ car, cdr and lambda and built all sorts of higher level things out of it, it was a real eye opener and I actually came to appreciate the value of a small simple core in a language.

I saw the videos before I read the book. That was helpful.

Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition (ePub)

#18

Any way of either converting this to PDF or getting it into something Kindle can read? Edit: Found this http://epub2pdf.com/ It's OK... Looks like it might be good for reading on an iPhone, not an iPad. Are the pages supposed to be this tiny or did the converter not do a very good job?

EPUB reflows so it should look great on the iPhone and iPad via apps that support it. PDF is a terrible format for eBooks.

Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition (ePub)

#20

Any way of either converting this to PDF or getting it into something Kindle can read? Edit: Found this http://epub2pdf.com/ It's OK... Looks like it might be good for reading on an iPhone, not an iPad. Are the pages supposed to be this tiny or did the converter not do a very good job?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15556326/Structure-and-Interpretat... is a pdf version made from the texinfo source.
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