/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

read it

seed it

>>45876

Unfortunately ebooks cannot be used for domestic repairs.

>>45877

I'll be seeding. I'm asking because I would like to discuss good things to /cyber/ read, but I dont know much about it.

/g/entoomen library is a stupid joke and an absolute waste of bandwidth.

It's gibabytes of nonsense. Shitload of bad books, pajeet books, webscraps poorly converted to pdf, cropped books, really outdated books, etc.

A shitload of "for dummies" titles too, and for everything else it's VERY incomplete.

It's really not useful, you have to dig through shitloads of non-material to find one interesting book, which you could do much better with a search through libgen.io typing a keyword of your interest.

After I leeched the library I ended up wiping all of it and keepin ONE FUCKING BOOK (MIT lock guide, p gud shit).

I had already my own collection of books which I'd found by myself through websearches on interesting subjects, and my collection was, though not as big, 100 times better, and it had the topics I was interested in and not a shitload of .NET stuff.

My point is that anyone with a little effort can build his own collection just like I did and find the best books, while the /g/entoomen library is just a bunch of garbage and you'll be lucky if you find a handful of books worth keeping after digging through all that clutter.

>>45881

The whole point of it is to hog the bandwidth of newfags so that they can't post as much.

>>45881

That makes me sad. I like storing data, I was expecting to find a good collection so I could access it instead of searching in the internet. Like a personal library.

>>45885

If you like keeping books offline to have on hand, download a chunk of Project Gutenberg.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_CD_and_DVD_Project

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Mirroring_How-To

>>45887

I'm downloading, thanks.

>>45885

Well, it's not too hard. And it's better because you can look for your favorite topics, and you learn along the way. One resource points to another, so even in the process of hoarding books, though it may be slower, it's bound to have better quality and you don't defer the learning experience to starting a 1000+ page book only to find out it's too impractical, dense or outdated by page 50. As you search through the web and find resources you learn a bit about those resources or the topic in general.

>>45893

The thing is that I want to avoid internet as much as possible.

>>45904

Then buy or steal print books.

>>45904

>wants to avoid internet as much as possible

>instead of spending his "limited" internet time hoarding books he spends it in 8chan

Yeah, no.

bump to fix the thread, though god knows why

>>45881

Sad, but true. To me, only SICP (in which all figures are disgusting bitmaps contrarily to the paper version which has nice vector graphics) and Numerical Recipes in C stand out from the mass of uninteresting shit. Also, there is absolutely nothing on electronics and serious-level mathematics. Like all /g/ projects, it screams incompetence.

>>48008

It's the product of data hoarders. I used be like that. I'd download every ebook about programming, survival, electronics, chemistry, etc. I'd read maybe 1 out of 500 books I'd downloaded.

Unless the knowledge goes through analysis then synthesis, it's just bits sitting on a hard drive.

It's better to manually download ebooks which form some sort of learning plan, because each ebook will take at least 2 weeks to read, study, and act on.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a project to produce a better organized and more concise gentoomen torrent.

>>48013

I think the original mentality was that quantity with a few kernels of quality subsumed in the endless folders of crap. Still a very valuable resource non-the less?

>>48109

Outdated for at least 5 years.

And nobody seemed to be scraping http://it-ebooks.info before the shutdown.

At least libgen will be a thing

Real problem in our time: actually reading information rather than downloading it and shit posting. There is a huge abundance available. Before I had internet access I was a monster with the productivity.

>>45881

Ignore this moron OP, Gentoo library is a good place to start.

>>48229

Its really not, and we need better. There are a bunch of BS Books on MS Office, even MS Office 2007. Somethings are timeless classics, but we need something much smaller, and more organized.

Maybe /cyber/ doesn't need to have a recommended MS Access 2007 book. Piling all this shit up, encourages people to read nothing.

Maybe /cyber/ should decide on a recommended technology guide, with alternatives and strengths of each. Then assemble a recommended resources for each.

wow i didnt seen a post with sense like this for a while.

so, will be usefull if we start posting the selecteds for the begginner library. START NOW.. i will suggest for the serious begginner, the Tenenbaum books, especially, Operating Systems, and Computer Networks

>>48302

I am unaware of how skillful most people here are, but I would suspect most would benefit from

COMPTia A+, NET+ , Security+ Core for IT.

>>48300

The library also needs to stop using scanned PDFs. There should be some community effort to switch to some format that uses less than 100MB per book. OCR should do most of the trick.

>>48366

Does /cyber/ have a wiki ?

>>48376

There's wiki.installgentoo.com but ultimately it never went anywhere though there is some minor activity on it still.