Re: [OT] Online downloadable books
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>From: michf@post.tau.ac.il
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: [OT] Online downloadable books
>Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:26:42 +0300
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>>On 8/22/2009 8:12 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>> From:
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>>> http://www.4shared.com
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>>> I downloaded a book I was looking for: Takeuti-Zaring's
>Introduction to
>>> Axiomatic Set Theory.
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>>> It comes in .djvu format. I'd be curious to know how it was
>formatted that
>>> way: certainly not by scanning it page to page.
>>>
>>> I think in future more and more books will be available on line,
>and many
>>> already are; but the problem is with old editions: either scanning
>them page
>>> after page, either re-write them from scratch.
>>>
>>> Another book I was looking for: Quine's Set Theory and Its Logic,
>was not
>>> anywhere in internet. Can anyone suggest a place where it's
>downloadable?
>>>
>>> Rodolfo
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>>You are talking about illegal copies of the books, I don't think
>that this is
>>the right list for that.
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>>Some books are also available as ebooks, you can check amazon if
>they sell the
>>books you want as ebooks. They are usually in pdf form quite often
>with drm.
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>>I've never ran into a book legal distributes as djvu
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The format is described on djvu.org. there's also a GPLed version of
the library.
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