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While it is a great project, posting a link to it is almost like posting a link to Wikipedia.

• yosefjaved1 5y ago
  Funny enough, I never heard of it until yesterday when I was looking to buy a book called "Calculus Made Easy" from Amazon and read a review that mentioned not to buy the book because it was a printed version of the it on Project Gutenberg. I was debating if I should post up the link or not because I did find other posts that mentioned Project Gutenberg on HN when I did a quick search; however, I didn't see any post that mentioned Project Gutenberg exclusively in my search. I figured if HN didn't think it was useful then they'll just bury my post down or leave it alone. Also, I'm sure there were other people on HN out there like me who were completely oblivious that this project existed. I'm glad I did mention because some of the comments on this post are really good.
  • mgdlbp 5y ago
    And today's lucky 10 000 are thankful for your doing so. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
  • gramie 5y ago
    I am partway through the calculus text, and it really is good. 25 years after finishing my engineering degree, I finally understand why the derivative of 5x^2 -6x +2 is 10x -6. Amazing!
  • ghaff 5y ago
    I think you'll find that even on HN, there are a lot of people who don't read a lot of books that aren't reference books--and even fewer who have much interest in mostly 100+ year-old novels.