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Hopefully some talented soul will write a script to convert these HTML files into mobie, epub and PDF.
From the landing page: "However, we want to be clear that this edition is only free to read online, and this posting does not transfer any right to download all or any portion of The Feynman Lectures on Physics for any purpose."
Absolutely great books however!
I've learned a lot already from those books.
Also, the "For the Practical Man" (algebra, geometry, trig, arithemtic) series of books on mathematics that Feynman started his career with. They are hard to get hold of and expensive but the calculus book is wonderful if incredibly dense and written in an early 1900's style!
Those, a cheap Casio calculator, a box of pencils and some school exercise books have taught me more than a university degree and years of industry experience.
Edit: found a legitimate PDF of "Calculus for the practical man" http://physsocyork.co.uk/notes/J.%20E.%20Thopmson--Calculus%...
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Hopefully some talented soul will write a script to convert these HTML files into mobie, epub and PDF.
From the landing page: "However, we want to be clear that this edition is only free to read online, and this posting does not transfer any right to download all or any portion of The Feynman Lectures on Physics for any purpose."
classics.. to be sure....
edit: i almost feel like these shouldn't be something that gets digitized.....this knowledge and its presentation belongs in a tactile medium...
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Hopefully some talented soul will write a script to convert these HTML files into mobie, epub and PDF.
From the landing page: "However, we want to be clear that this edition is only free to read online, and this posting does not transfer any right to download all or any portion of The Feynman Lectures on Physics for any purpose."
b) That's not how the internet works. One has already wgot the entire thing.
every now and then i go into the library and read a chapter out of my hardcover set of these. my kids do the "geeez dad" thing when i make them sit with me and look at them. classics.. to be sure.... edit: i almost feel like these shouldn't be something that gets digitized.....this knowledge and its presentation belongs in a tactile medium...
Also if I get into a book, I always end up buying the thing as I don't want any electronic distractions taking away from it.
every now and then i go into the library and read a chapter out of my hardcover set of these. my kids do the "geeez dad" thing when i make them sit with me and look at them. classics.. to be sure.... edit: i almost feel like these shouldn't be something that gets digitized.....this knowledge and its presentation belongs in a tactile medium...
Agree with this. Also if I get into a book, I always end up buying the thing as I don't want any electronic distractions taking away from it.
Reading on Kindle is pretty distraction free I find.
every now and then i go into the library and read a chapter out of my hardcover set of these. my kids do the "geeez dad" thing when i make them sit with me and look at them. classics.. to be sure.... edit: i almost feel like these shouldn't be something that gets digitized.....this knowledge and its presentation belongs in a tactile medium...
Someday we'll have an honest-to-god book with e-ink, which will reconfigure itself to whatever we want to read and get the best of both worlds. (PopSci promised me this more than a decade ago and I'm bitter it hasn't happened yet!)
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Agree with this. Also if I get into a book, I always end up buying the thing as I don't want any electronic distractions taking away from it.
>> "I don't want any electronic distractions taking away from it" Reading on Kindle is pretty distraction free I find.
Plus I can't give my books to other people to read when I'm done.
I had a Kobo and a Kindle and they were horrid.
I understand but no thanks.