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Definitely a very good list. But also an expensive list! HNers: any suggestions on where to find these books for cheap. (outside university libraries)

• llimllib 17y ago
  abebooks.com is usually the cheapest place to buy textbooks, you can often get the softcover international editions.
  • Shamiq 17y ago
    Isn't the buying and selling of those international versions questionably legal in the United States? (Assuming OP is from the US).
    • Herring 17y ago
      Add it to the list of 'questionably legal' things I do online.
    • briansmith 17y ago
      What's illegal about buying or selling books? The publishers have a contract with distributors in those poorer countries that prohibits those distributors from distributing the books here. But, anybody who DOESN'T have a contract with the book publisher can buy from the distribitor and sell them here, unless their local laws prohibit that. And, nothing in OUR laws prohibits buying them--by now it's well established that you cannot really enforce laws against buying books. Do you want the international edition? I have a few of them, and they are better than nothing. But, the paper is so thin that I get distracted by the words/figures on the other side of the page.
      • llimllib 17y ago
        > Do you want the international edition? I have a few of them, and they are better than nothing. But, the paper is so thin that I get distracted by the words/figures on the other side of the page. Yeah, I don't buy them for myself either; I just know they're wicked cheap.
• mahmud 17y ago
  Local 4-year universities typically allow the public to access their libraries for a fee; around $100/year.
  • silentbicycle 17y ago
    University alumni can often get an alumni card for much less. I can access several CS academic journals online with mine.
• yaroslavvb 17y ago
  I found scanned pdf versions of half of the books in the list after about 5 minutes of searching