Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 2:27 PM UTC

eru wrote: post #89

Retric wrote: post #52

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People can recite books just fine, let alone poetry. Granted, it's something of a lost skill, but one on one interactions are not limited to dialogs even if they may enhance exposition. So, you gain absolutely nothing by writing the spoken word down as a skilled orator can speak with a nuteral tone when desired but the written word can't add inflection.

Sometimes deliberate ambiguity is part of the art. (Also, on a more practical level, books are better at random access.)

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC

_djhrtmn wrote: post #66

vanderZwan wrote: post #65

Great! This part kind of surprises me though: > 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. I know it doesn't actually mean anything in practice, but still, I'm shaking my head in disbelief that there's still people out there clinging to this mentality. Aside…

Yes, but isn't that basically the same thing as most streaming services? Netflix? To me, 'clinging' makes it sound like the idea has gone away.

Post by madengr » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC

Shizka wrote: post #88

madengr wrote: post #84

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Yes I have the audio. No, it is no substitute for the book. The audio is of the lectures. The books are based on the lectures. It's just nice to have the audio to go along so you can hear his personality.

Yeah I could see how that would be beneficial. And I guess that it could work for repetition as well. Where did you get the audio?

Post by gluejar » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 7:46 PM UTC

hackerboos wrote: post #7

CountHackulus wrote: post #2

Disappointed it's explicitly not for download, but it's still excellent to be able to have access to all of these.

Hopefully some talented soul will write a script to convert these HTML files into mobie, epub and PDF.