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I built http://hackershelf.com http://hackershelf.com just for this. It's a crowdsourced listing of legally free books on just about any topic.

by okal 11y ago

crshults 11y ago
Thanks for this. I was happy to see 'Patterns for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems' on your list, though the link appears broken - new link: [1]. I remember working through that book and porting everything from C to Assembly (my boss at the time was too cheap to buy me the nice Keil compiler). Once I had that library in hand, I was knocking out his projects in days instead of weeks. [1] http://www.safetty.net/download/pont_pttes_2014.pdf http://www.safetty.net/download/pont_pttes_2014.pdf
- okal 11y ago
  As with any proper crowdsourced website, you can edit broken links yourself ;-)
  - Istof 11y ago
    also, to prevent conflicts of interests, sometimes it is better if someone else does it for you
austenallred 11y ago
How much was the domain?
- psykovsky 11y ago
  10 to 20 USD, most probably.
Winterflow3r 11y ago
thanks! this is really cool!
- okal 11y ago
  You're welcome. Glad you like it :-)
anthony_romeo 11y ago
I love this. I'll be signing up. Just one thing, browsing by topic doesn't seem to have any sort of rhyme or reason in its ordering aside from some vague first-letter ordering. For example, there are numerous "I" categories, with one "I" for "interactive" and another one for "Interactive". One grouping of "I"'s includes tags "ios", "iOS", and "ip", but the next "I" grouping below just contains "IP" Edit: I see the ordering issue now. There's a list of topics. The list is printed out in alphabetical order. But for some reason when the first letter of a topic changes between capital letter and a lowercase letter, a new letter grouping is created. Probably it's creating a new category whenever the first character changes, but it did not take into account capital and lowercase characters being different.
- okal 11y ago
  Thank you. I'm not actively maintaining it anymore, TBH, but I've been getting bug reports/feature requests lately [meaning actual people still use it] so it might be time to reconsider that stance.
  - mkaziz 11y ago
    It sounds like if you open source the code, you could get some pull requests pretty easily.
EFruit 11y ago
In the past month or so I've been using it astoundingly often. I really enjoy having such a site available and I appreciate the generosity of it all, but it could really (IMHO) use a cleanup. Perhaps a pass over the book URLs for 404s, cleaning/merging the duplicate categories, and perhaps a more rigorous way of preventing them from happening again (suggesting existing topics on the submit form?) I'm sure there are plenty of people here that would be happy to contribute content, code, design, or whatever.

I built http://hackershelf.com http://hackershelf.com just for this. It's a crowdsourced listing of legally free books on just about any topic.

by okal 11y ago

I built http://hackershelf.com http://hackershelf.com just for this. It's a crowdsourced listing of legally free books on just about any topic.

crshults 11y ago

Thanks for this. I was happy to see 'Patterns for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems' on your list, though the link appears broken - new link: [1]. I remember working through that book and porting everything from C to Assembly (my boss at the time was too cheap to buy me the nice Keil compiler). Once I had that library in hand, I was knocking out his projects in days instead of weeks. [1] http://www.safetty.net/download/pont_pttes_2014.pdf http://www.safetty.net/download/pont_pttes_2014.pdf

okal 11y ago
As with any proper crowdsourced website, you can edit broken links yourself ;-)
- Istof 11y ago
  also, to prevent conflicts of interests, sometimes it is better if someone else does it for you

austenallred 11y ago

How much was the domain?

psykovsky 11y ago
10 to 20 USD, most probably.

Winterflow3r 11y ago

thanks! this is really cool!

okal 11y ago
You're welcome. Glad you like it :-)

anthony_romeo 11y ago

I love this. I'll be signing up. Just one thing, browsing by topic doesn't seem to have any sort of rhyme or reason in its ordering aside from some vague first-letter ordering. For example, there are numerous "I" categories, with one "I" for "interactive" and another one for "Interactive". One grouping of "I"'s includes tags "ios", "iOS", and "ip", but the next "I" grouping below just contains "IP" Edit: I see the ordering issue now. There's a list of topics. The list is printed out in alphabetical order. But for some reason when the first letter of a topic changes between capital letter and a lowercase letter, a new letter grouping is created. Probably it's creating a new category whenever the first character changes, but it did not take into account capital and lowercase characters being different.

okal 11y ago
Thank you. I'm not actively maintaining it anymore, TBH, but I've been getting bug reports/feature requests lately [meaning actual people still use it] so it might be time to reconsider that stance.
- mkaziz 11y ago
  It sounds like if you open source the code, you could get some pull requests pretty easily.

EFruit 11y ago

In the past month or so I've been using it astoundingly often. I really enjoy having such a site available and I appreciate the generosity of it all, but it could really (IMHO) use a cleanup. Perhaps a pass over the book URLs for 404s, cleaning/merging the duplicate categories, and perhaps a more rigorous way of preventing them from happening again (suggesting existing topics on the submit form?) I'm sure there are plenty of people here that would be happy to contribute content, code, design, or whatever.