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Off-Topic => Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge => Topic started by: neonix on December 28, 2024, 03:31:55 PM

Title: Books
Post by: neonix on December 28, 2024, 03:31:55 PM
Just for fun : the story of an accidental revolutionary, Linus Torvalds & David Diamond
Rebel code : the inside story of Linux and the open source revolution, by Glyn Moody
Free as in Freedom, by Sam Williams
Free Software, Free Society - Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman, 2nd Edition
Title: Re: Books
Post by: gadget42 on December 28, 2024, 04:34:51 PM
the devuans have a book related thread that is about 4yr-old(and currently 9 pages):

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4212
Title: Re: Books
Post by: CNK on December 28, 2024, 09:38:57 PM
For cheapskates like me looking for boring textbooks:

https://freecomputerbooks.com/
Title: Re: Books
Post by: patrikg on December 29, 2024, 03:26:02 AM
https://standardebooks.org/
 (https://standardebooks.org/)
https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/bookshelfs.html
 (https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/bookshelfs.html)
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/
 (https://github.com/EbookFoundation/)
https://libgen.mx/ (https://libgen.mx/)
Title: Re: Books
Post by: mocore on December 29, 2024, 05:07:50 AM
to read the txt.kooberoc (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,24820.0.html)
just turn your screen/monitor upsidedown!

Title: Re: Books
Post by: vinceASPECT on December 29, 2024, 09:12:37 AM
hello forum,

wow.... lots of free books..... super

books in the high street are real pricey....

i am unsure about how the web has matured over the
years and although you get city library's offering up digital
library's for all.....i am unsure about how it rolls when a person
wants to join an OPEN online library platform..... where they desire to upload
digital versions of their bookshelf for other users to view ...
(same as what city library's offer via their digital loaning platforms)

i believe it boils down to copyright versus exactly HOW a platform user views
your uploaded bookshelf and whether or not the viewers devices are storing
any of the copyright material in non volatile memory....etc....in other words
whether or not a device does NOT permanently store any of the literature
through powering off cycles

thx
c


Title: Re: Books
Post by: gadget42 on December 29, 2024, 09:13:28 AM
and from @CNK referenced website, went to:

https://freecomputerbooks.com/searchEngines.html

and way down at the bottom was "Miscellaneous" and in it a link to:

https://www.lifewire.com/download-free-books-3482754

which naturally led to Project Gutenberg and of course Distributed Proofreaders:

https://www.gutenberg.org/

https://www.pgdp.net/c/

perhaps you'll find this gutenberg download count page fascinating:
(Only transfers from ibiblio.org are counted)

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
Title: Re: Books
Post by: mocore on December 29, 2024, 01:05:59 PM


https://producingoss.com/

fwiw recommendation from
 "Greg Wilson - Not on the shelves: what nonexistent books, tools, and courses can tell us about ourselves "
Title: Re: Books
Post by: mocore on January 06, 2025, 11:59:08 AM
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Music_Got_Free  ;D

 see also : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Music_Got_Free#Documentary
 + related : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defiant_Ones_(TV_series)
 & https://techcrunch.com/2007/10/29/when-pigs-fly-a-different-take-on-the-music-industry/
 text : http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=31238
 title : "When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide."

 ;)
Title: Re: Books
Post by: gadget42 on January 07, 2025, 12:07:13 PM
more:
https://archive.org/
https://help.archive.org/help/search-a-basic-guide/
https://archive.org/details/additional_collections
https://archive.org/details/@whatwillittake
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index
https://bookshelf.theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

(https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27462.0;attach=6980)
Title: Re: Books
Post by: mocore on January 17, 2025, 05:03:18 AM

Quote
Essential C. By Nick Parlante.
Title: Re: Books
Post by: neonix on March 19, 2025, 08:31:15 AM
In The Beginning Was The Command Line, by Neal Stevenson

Winners and Losers: Creators and Casualties in the Age of the Internet, by Kieran Levis
Title: Re: Books
Post by: neonix on April 07, 2025, 05:41:52 PM
Free for All: How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans, by Peter Wayne

BTW: Is there any volunteer to write a book about Tiny and Fast Linux distribution?