Zachary_Kurtz comments on Applied Rationality: Group Problem Solving Session - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Zachary_Kurtz 09 February 2011 02:28:57AM 2 points [-]

instead of buying textbooks check out library.nu

Largest collection of [illegal, mostly] free textbooks I've seen on the net.

Comment author: ata 09 February 2011 02:40:58AM 1 point [-]

Library Genesis (mirrors: gen.lib.rus.ec, free-books.dontexist.com) is another very large collection, focusing mainly on math/science/tech/engineering textbooks.

Comment author: lukeprog 09 February 2011 02:43:20AM 0 points [-]

ata,

Have you ever found any on these sites that aren't also on library.nu?

Comment author: ata 09 February 2011 02:55:03AM *  1 point [-]

Several, I'm pretty sure, though I don't remember any particular ones off the top of my head.

(I usually check Library Genesis before library.nu these days anyway, as they usually have what I'm looking for and there are slightly fewer trivial inconveniences (no login, one click to download from the search result page instead of four clicks, no password-protected archives).)

Comment author: blogospheroid 12 February 2011 01:36:51PM 0 points [-]

I've downloaded a couple of files from there, but they are all encrypted, and nowhere on the site was it clear as to what was the decryption password.

Comment author: Zachary_Kurtz 15 February 2011 08:21:47PM 1 point [-]

the archive password is listed before each external link in every example I've seen. Usually the password is either ebooksclub.org or library.nu