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Good Online Sources for Free Books?
hydopower asks: "I recently stumbled upon a collection of online libraries. This was fascinating to me, but too many of them cost money or offer Google Print-like limited functionality. I decided to put together a list of sites that offer free books in a format that would allow a person to actually read through them. As Slashdot readers are known for being well read and for enjoying free things, I figured I'd tap into the knowledge pool here. Any suggestions?"
a very specific item but, those learning python can use the excellent and free dive into python .
http://www.techbooksforfree.com/
Project Gutenberg
Lots of literature. And most are just straight text so you can read them with anything.
Try the Baen Free Library. You are out of luck here if you don't like "sci fi", and the selection is rather small, but the files are nice and unemcumbered and they do have some great ones like Fallen Angels.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
O'reilly offers a few of their books under an open doc license: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
"He was a wise man who invented beer." - Plato
How about Creative Commons?
Celebrate the finer things in life
Do they have a book on basic use of HTML? :)
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Online Books Page From UPenn.
THE most complete listing I have seen.
Cory Doctorow:
Eastern Standard Tribe (CC)
A Place So Foreign (and eight more) (CC)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (CC)
Lawrence Lessig:
Free Culture
Tech and science books:
Version Control with Subversion (CC)
An open source math book
Light and Matter, a series of physics texts by Ben Crowell
Lists:
The Assayer is a place to find and review open books.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
Try The Assayer. It's a catalog of free books, specializing in modern books that have been set free by their authors (not old public domain books, which you can get on Project Gutenberg). Users can also submit reviews. There are some links here that might also be of interest.
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