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Re: [OT] Online downloadable books



On 8/24/2009 2:17 AM, owens@netptc.net wrote:



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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

On 8/22/2009 8:12 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
From:

   http://www.4shared.com

I downloaded a book I was looking for: Takeuti-Zaring's
Introduction to
Axiomatic Set Theory.

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



You are talking about illegal copies of the books, I don't think
that this is
the right list for that.

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.

I've never ran into a book legal distributes as djvu

The format is described on djvu.org.  there's also a GPLed version of
the library.
L

The format is free, not problem with the format. Books distributed in djvu form generally aren't (at least I never ran into such). All books I've seen in this format are scanned copies, and if you check the cover of just about any book you will see a notice telling you that it is illegal to make full or partial copies without authorization.

The few free books I've seen were always pdf format.

BTW, if you want to find bootlegged books, google is your friend.


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