Re: Low Quality People: The Proof

Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 11:05:16 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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I've been checking out 2 to 3 books every 3 weeks, roughly, from the local
library.  I won't list the books, but they involve mostly stuff related to one
science or another.
 

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That's great!
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But the local library is not the best source for books, i.e.
e-books (all books nowadays are e-books).

I have "purchased" some books from Barnes and Noble. Including some old science
fiction. "Bug Jack Barron", "Space War Blues", "A Feast Unknown", "Lord Tyger".

Plenty of good reads available on Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg
Australia. I have a soft spot for the (predictable) adventures of
Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Often enough a book can be found in PDF format by simple googling.

I won't tell you how, but you should be able to acquire any
book published in the last 75-years (a lot have been scanned)
gratis within 20 minutes or so.

I downloaded the famous "Gravitation" book (Kip Thorne et al) but now
they inundate me with spam.

Information wants to be free and it shall be free.

Nonetheless, sometimes a hardcopy purchased from a publisher is best.
For example, Michael Kerrisk's 1000-page book on "The Linux Programming
Interface". Easy to search and far easier to move back and forth.
Not to mention one can glance between two pages easily.

Thanks to GNU/Linux, it is possible for anyone to produce
a publication quality book and then publish the same on
a web site.
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The only problem is the cranks.
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For example, on sci.physics, a notorious crank with the nym
"Archimedes Plutonium" has actually published books on Amazon:
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https://www.amazon.com/stores/Archimedes-Plutonium/author/B089QBZX8W
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Only a fool would ever buy them.
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But publishing now belongs to the individual author and not
the grubbing publishing companies.

Nonetheless, sometimes a hardcopy purchased from a publisher is best.

When I lived in LA, I would go to this place, now, sadly, closed:

    https://www.yelp.com/biz/opamp-technical-books-los-angeles-2

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