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Are any of these worth reading? I know most of the past IT ebook bundles have consisted of ~80% useless ebooks.
by Assossa 9y ago
Are any of these worth reading? I know most of the past IT ebook bundles have consisted of ~80% useless ebooks.
- wenc 9y agoIf this is legit and DRM-free, yes, there are a few books in there that are worth reading. I own hard copies of: * Hadoop: the definitive guide * Cassandra: The definitive guide And they are both excellent books. I have heard good things about: * Think Stats/Think Bayes * Learning Spark/High Performance Spark EDIT: I just bought the bundle. The PDFs seem legit and DRM-free -- O'Reilly no longer offers DRM-free ebooks, so this is useful.
- crooked-v 9y agoHumble Bundle is, indeed, legit.
- danirod 9y agoHumble Bundle content is DRM-free. Once you pay you get download links in your e-mail for downloading the content. Books are offered in PDF, ePub and Mobi formats. You can back up the books and/or keep the e-mail for future. If you sign up for an account you can also save your purchase to your account and then access all the purchases made through the library.
- neaden 9y agoJust a note that Think Stats/Think Bayes are available for free on the authors website: http://greenteapress.com/wp/ http://greenteapress.com/wp/
- newbear 9y agoIs this a good book to start with?
- neaden 9y agoIt's designed for teaching statistics to people who are already proficient at programming. I learned statistics first then learned programming so I can't really say from experience how good it as but I like the examples and the writing is clear.
- quantumhobbit 9y agoI have R in a nutshell. It is a pretty good reference but maybe a little brief and outdated.