Thread: Ebooks stuff

hi All,

I was refraining from commenting on this thread but looks like i need to point out few quick things.

1) Book sharing till its content is open for all is ohk with the forum (as already itterated by most of us)

2) Illegal content is not allowed ? (keep reading why.)

3) Assume that we do get involved in such activity this is a simple question to the Thread opener.
Have you taken the time out to understand how does free hosting services work.
secondly do you even understand the AUP policies of all such sites (which will include 4shared or rapidshare also)

some of the lines from X10hosting AUP
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Keeping all these in mind we should avoid this.

Now coming out back to the ethical or actual aspects of the scenario.
I prefer paying for the book atleast this way i help the author and in turn author helps me.
People are not always open with books simmilar to not all softwares are free.

we do have a lot of free books.
besides that if people think we need some book sharing i would suggest cataloguing books each member has in a single place based on location.
example people in pune can have on big thread cataloguing all the books they have and in turn books could be shared by each other just like we have in library.


Going to the easy of use of pdf's that they provide, if you want you are free to do and keep what ever you want on your own machine but not on this forum.
of you know that something is available online help them find it but not by giving direct link.

I think i have explained enough....

hope it helps in clearing all doubts regarding a book sharing objective

Quite old thread but then I just thought why not share the list of freely available books (obviously legally), and I stumbled upon this list..
ebook - List of freely available programming books - Stack Overflow and
Free Online Computer Science and Programming Books, Textbooks, and Lecture Notes :: FreeTechBooks.com

Quite a large list, I must say. I certainly cannot assure the quality but I'm sure some of them are really good..

Cheers.