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Very true, I see >56,000 English-language books that seem to be available for free ( http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%2... ).
Is there a way to scrape these programatically? I feel like it'd be a useful repository to have stashed away for whatever future reason.
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Very true, I see >56,000 English-language books that seem to be available for free ( http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%2... ).
Is there a way to scrape these programatically? I feel like it'd be a useful repository to have stashed away for whatever future reason.
Includes Categories for the Working Mathematician by Mac Lane.
Here the link to the 2nd edition (it also has the first edition in the collection):
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-1-4757-4721...
More on category theory --but more for a programmer's usecase-- here:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-textbook-for-Category...
And here:
http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-pr...
Can anyone explain how to differentiate between the multiple instances of the same titles? Is there a difference?
Labeling them or adding " (first edition)" to the title would've been nice, though.
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Looks like Springer runs a open publishing model for books, with a fee charged to the author, as usual . My guess would be that they are seeding a bunch of these classic books to increase visibility of the open publishing scheme. And anyway, there's probably genlib copies of most of these floating around anyways...
Just to emphasize your comment: anyone looking to expand their knowledge should download pdfs and epubs from genlib/libgen (I pronounce it "libgen"). It's changed the way I read. Now, if I have even a passing interest in a book, I download it and read the introduction. If I like it, I get it from the library. If I like my first reading, I buy the book. The two things that have increased the range of my intellectual i…
Does anyone know if there any backup/mirror links available, just in case that hosting server shuts down?
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Is there a way to scrape these programatically? I feel like it'd be a useful repository to have stashed away for whatever future reason.
Why? I can understand downloading a few that look interesting, or asking for permission to mirror them, but blindly downloading all of them seems like hoarding.
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Is there a way to scrape these programatically? I feel like it'd be a useful repository to have stashed away for whatever future reason.
Why? I can understand downloading a few that look interesting, or asking for permission to mirror them, but blindly downloading all of them seems like hoarding.