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Hundreds of Springer books for free download

Journal by hubie

The publisher Springer has made 473 of their books free to download during these covid shutdown times. I came across this as I was purusing the R-Bloggers site and I saw a package announcement that lets you download them very conveniently. Apparently that package was based upon this python project.

Lots of good math, physics, compsci, etc.

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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday April 29 2020, @01:55AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday April 29 2020, @01:55AM (#988081)

    Thanks for the tip! Passing it along to a student acquaintance.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29 2020, @04:01AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29 2020, @04:01AM (#988101)

    Was going to be sarcastic about this, but there are actually indeed some really good books here! This [springer.com] book, fundamental astronomy, seems great.

    Now for the reader...? I've been using Calibre, but I'm not really so impressed by its epub reader and its pdf reader is even worse. The native reader in Brave for PDFs is pretty decent, but it'd be nice to have a separate dedicated program with library functionality and so on. I also think Foxit kind of sucks. So, recommendations...?

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Wednesday April 29 2020, @05:05AM

      by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday April 29 2020, @05:05AM (#988105)

      For PDF I use Evince: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince [gnome.org]

      For epubs you're basically dealing with zipped up html so unless it's simple text, you're bound to run into issues with math, fonts, illustrations and layout unless you're using browser extensions or webkit/Electron based apps like https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm/ [github.io] , https://github.com/azu/mu-epub-reader [github.com] and so on...

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2020, @08:29PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2020, @08:29PM (#989174)

      I like plain old MuPDF. It's what everything else uses under the hood anyway.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2020, @08:31PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2020, @08:31PM (#989177)

        Didn't see you wanted library support - Coolreader3 is old but still works great if your distro has a package.

  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 29 2020, @05:49AM (3 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 29 2020, @05:49AM (#988113) Journal

    This is not going to bring Aaron Swartz back from the dead, you bastards! i will kill you, before I take your charity! You are like Microsoft, at whom I spit with my dying breath! From hell's depth, I spite thee! You really are parasitic dinosaurs, and you no longer provide any service, only restrictions to access, so I will share with any and all, regardless of your insidious claims of "copyright". Did Springer ever author anything? No? So as a non-author, as a copyright whore publisher, you have copyright on nothing. Those that you claim were obtained under duress, by threatening scholars with their reputations and livelihoods I, for one, will no longer put up with such extortion. Open access, or none. I will cite none of your articles. OER, Open Educational Resources, Free Textbooks, as in speech, but if speech is not free as in free beer, it is not in fact free.

    Nice try, Der Springer! Checkmate, with open source. l

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29 2020, @09:38AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29 2020, @09:38AM (#988142)

      http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ [lib.rus.ec]

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29 2020, @01:06PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29 2020, @01:06PM (#988168)

      if speech is not free as in free beer, it is not in fact free.

      Fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word, every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers.

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