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This is a list of things I ought to get around to reading.
See also:
- On the contemporization of an older work
- On text localization
- See also Chinese > Books for learning Chinese
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See also Programming > Programming reading list
Things to consider ∞
- Remember that a book may have been released multiple times, so it may have different ISBN numbers.
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Even if a book is out of print it may be purchasable or downloadable..
- As an audiobook, and some even with the author as the narrator!
- A PDF or other e-book.
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Do not give up just because you have one small scrap of information. Write down anything you know about the subject and search for other keywords and perhaps you can find a hint somewhere in the world.
- See if you can find a list your item might be on. Maybe find a community and ask.
- Does the author have a website? That's a great place to start for information on getting a book.
- There are MANY ways to buy used books. There are online stores of them, there are real-world stores.. there are little clubs and other ways to request used books. Sometimes you can post a "wanted note" for a book.. you never know what would turn up!
- Don't forget the real world! Libraries and book stores should not be discounted. Asking a real person about a book isn't out of the question.. you might turn up some good information, especially if the book is/was popular.
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Though woefully out of date in places, read misc.books.technical Frequently Asked Questions.
Book-hunting ∞
See Shopping for the common places.
See also e-book websites
Notably:
Specialty:
- https://www.betterworldbooks.com/
- https://www.chegg.com/books
- was https://www.bookcrossing.com/
- https://www.powells.com/
- https://www.barnesandnoble.com/
- https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/ [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
- https://www.thriftbooks.com/
- https://bookshop.org/
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- Owned by Amazon
- Aikido > How to build your Aikido book collection (archive)
- https://www.bookfinder.com/
- Library of Congress: https://catalog.loc.gov/
- https://textbooknova.com/
TODO - Other ideas: ∞
- Publishers
- library archives
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inter-country loans
Online reading / eBooks ∞
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(Reddit) BitTorrent > https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/hrgmv/tracker_with_pdfsebooks_of_college_textbooks/
- https://www.gutenberg.org/
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- Alternatives are listed there.
- https://archive.org/details/texts
- http://www.textfiles.com/
- https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng [ 3 ]
- was https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ - I don't know if they are offline or relocated; I couldn't find the main directory
- https://library.unc.edu/
- https://search.worldcat.org/ [ 4 ]
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- https://manybooks.net/
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https://libgen.rs/ [ 5 ]
- http://2020ok.com/
- was https://freebookspot.eu/ [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ]
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Chinese: was ishare.iask.com
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- Archives
- was bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/mass-digitized-archives/Pages/search-syntax.aspx [ 9 ]
- The Textbook League had potential.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060613101044/http://bootlegbooks.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20201204163627/https://www.freeetextbooks.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140502040901/http://www.downeu.me:80/ebook/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200519122749/http://www.essortment.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20151103041757/http://en.bookfi.org:80/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200115133139/https://ebookee.org/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20181006194501/http://onlineselfeducation.com:80/ [ 10 ]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20191207011131/http://alleng.org/
- https://web.archive.org/*/http://www.etext.org/
- http://www.giuciao.com/
Bits ∞
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Reading is just staring at a dead piece of wood for hours and hallucinating. -- unknown
Inbox ∞
- Logotherapy
- Lucid dreaming has a bunch of articles which I've never read.
- Squashed Philosophers
- https://skepticalinquirer.org/ [ 11 ]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190410105625/http://www.satisfice.com/articles.shtml
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https://web.archive.org/web/20191018225137/http://eze33.com/literature/luxun/ahq.htm
- https://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/ - Bible / Quran / Book of Mormon
Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books.
Upcoming ∞
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Unknown, by Dr. Nina L. Shapiro
- She is working on a book about hype in popular health advice (learned of this 2015-03-09)
Intelligencia ∞
Items ∞
Authors ∞
Lists ∞
- Brett H. McKay's wish list
- Harvard Classics
- Prometheus Award
- Science fiction Western
- Nebula Award for science fiction
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Science Fiction
To research ∞
I'm told these things have novels:
Ancient list ∞
labeled "later" ∞
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Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, "The Goal" (North River Press, Great Barrington, MA, 1984).
- Sortof like The Deadline - (1997 book), by Tom DeMarco in style, although a different topic.
- The Art of Demotivation ISBN 1892503409
- Carl Sagan:: The Demon Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark ISBN 0345409469
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The Syntax of American Sign Language ISBN 0262140675
- Shunryu Suzuki:: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind ISBN 0834800799
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Animal House
Other Stuff ∞
Stuff here may not have even been considered yet.. this is just a dump of stuff I should possibly take a look at.
Nutbar recommendations ∞
These items are suspect. The guy who I borrowed this list from is a nut!
2014 - /lit/'s Top 100 Books ∞
Articles ∞
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was https://www.holysmoke.org/
- A skeptical site that looks at the facts about frauds, fakes, fools, and flim-flam; a huge amount of stuff, oldschool and new.
Research notes ∞
[I don't know what book these notes were from..]
p. 22:
arthur conan doyle
1926 - the history of spiritualism
https://archive.org/details/historyofspiritu015638mbp
1922 - the coming of the faeries
https://archive.org/details/coming_fairies_0616
1887 - R. Hodgeson - proceedings of the society for psychical research IV 381-404
https://sites.google.com/site/chs4o8pt/pspr_map
1887 - R. Hodgeson - proceedings of the society for psychical research VIII 253-310
https://sites.google.com/site/chs4o8pt/pspr_map
Alfred Russel Wallace
1927 - isis
1875 - on miracles and modern spiritualism: three essays
https://archive.org/details/miraclesandmode00wallgoog
[archive.org alternatives exist]
1891 - journal of the society for psychical research, 5, 45. -- correspondence: mr. s.k. davey's experiments
1898 - the wonderful century: Its successes and its failures.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924012063875
[archive.org alternatives exist]
1983 - p. thagard and r.e. nisbett -- philosophy of science
Richard E. Nisbett?
http://nisbett.socialpsychology.org/contact
Paul Thagard?
https://web.archive.org/web/20160429001526/https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/people-profiles/paul-thagard
Regular Reading Recommendations ∞
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200119162059/http://www.tuxmagazine.com/
- https://mindhacks.com/ -- A blog with demos and commentary on how to look inside your brain using neuroscience and psychology.
Stuff I've read but won't bother making a page for ∞
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The Gift of Fear, by Gavin DeBecker
- 0440226198
- 2007-01-06 -- I listened to the abridged audio book, and gave the audio and book away; it's not my thing.
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The Naturally Clean Home, by Karen Siegel-Maier
- ISBN 1-58017-194-X
- ISBN-10: 1603420851
- ISBN-13: 978-1603420853
- Read 2006-10-27
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Up The Organization - How to stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits, by Robert Townsend
- Library of congress catalog card number: 72-98654 (1970)
- 2006-04-18 or earlier -- Fantastic old book.
Last updated 2024-09-27 at 01:33:29
Footnotes
- was https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/ [ ↩ ]
- was https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/ [ ↩ ]
- was https://web.archive.org/web/20220825142922/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/home.aspx[ ↩ ]
- was www.worldcat.org/ [ ↩ ]
- was http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ [ ↩ ]
- was https://freebookspot.club/ [ ↩ ]
- was http://www.freebookspot.club/default.aspx [ ↩ ]
- was http://www.freebookspot.es/ [ ↩ ]
- was https://web.archive.org/*/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/mass-digitized-archives/Pages/search-syntax.aspx
was www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/index-e.html [ ↩ ] - was http://www.feedurbrain.com/ [ ↩ ]
- was https://web.archive.org/web/20090729110843/http://www.csicop.org:80/si/online.html[ ↩ ]
- was http://www.trevorstrong.org/?page_id=189 [ ↩ ]
- was http://www.trevorstrong.org/?page_id=189 [ ↩ ]
Thanks for the list // I'll give them a try.
I dropped in some old notes.
added some old notes
fiddled a little
moved some items offsite to begin judging and possibly collecting them
added some more links, some of which are probably broken..
Added some notes on other books read a long time ago.
audited some links, fixed footnotes