gwern comments on Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Brihaspati 16 September 2011 05:42:22AM 32 points [-]

If a book exists in PDF on the web somewhere, I estimate a 90% of chance of finding it by at least one of the following four methods, which altogether take only a few minutes if you're practiced at it:

  1. Search library.nu. (You'll have to sign up for a free account the first time.)
  2. Search Library Genesis.
  3. Search Scrapetorrent.
  4. Use a custom Google search and keeping clicking through links until you find a filesharing site link for the book - one that isn't broken yet.
Comment author: gwern 03 February 2012 06:22:18PM 3 points [-]

There's also #ebooks on irc.irchighway.net. Hard to use, but on occasion they have something that hasn't made it to any of the others.

Comment author: siodine 03 February 2012 06:45:47PM 2 points [-]

Filestube.com is useful for finding books on sites like rapidshare and megaupload. Bookfi.org is another good one.