Hackernews posts about EBooks

1. Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press (kelar.org)
   36 points by pvdebbe 24 days ago | 18 comments
2. Why the commercial eBook market is broken (2007) (www.antipope.org)
   2 points by Tomte 30 days ago | discuss
3. IEEE's 5 New E-Books Provide On-ramp to Engineering (spectrum.ieee.org)
   1 points by teleforce 7 days ago | discuss
4. Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook (commandline.stribny.name)
   454 points by petr25102018 19 days ago | 109 comments
5. Ask HN: Why is it all about AI on here and on github and youtube?
   3 points by Haeuserschlucht 23 days ago | 4 comments
6. Show HN: A book of field notes for early life (free this weekend) (www.amazon.com)
   2 points by kolyder 25 days ago | discuss
7. Show HN: An Introduction to Event Storming and DDD (leanpub.com)
   1 points by meaboutsoftware 28 days ago | discuss
8. The Machine Stops (1909) (standardebooks.org)
   136 points by xeonmc 26 days ago | 34 comments
9. "Sindo Hane" has published more than 150 books since April 2025 (www.amazon.com)
   4 points by ilamont 12 days ago | 1 comments
10. Project Gutenberg Down (gutenberg.org)
    3 points by mindaslab 29 days ago | 1 comments
11. The Artilect War – Cosmists vs. Terrans (2005) [pdf] (avalonlibrary.net)
    2 points by droideqa 24 days ago | 1 comments
12. An Investigation of the Laws of Thought [1854 – George Boole] (www.gutenberg.org)
    2 points by bookofjoe 8 days ago | discuss
13. No Template, Just Pure Intelligence: AI Agents for Book Creation (www.ebooks.run)
    1 points by harithzahid 6 days ago | 2 comments
14. Work When Your Team Works: How to Align Time Zones in On-Demand Talent (www.theflock.com)
    1 points by bymerco 20 days ago | discuss
15. Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews (www.theguardian.com)
    11 points by Kaibeezy 10 days ago | discuss
16. Extracting memorized pieces of books from open-weight language models (arxiv.org)
    4 points by fzliu about 12 hours ago | discuss
17. Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level
    248 points by upmind 9 days ago | 82 comments
18. Ask HN: Seeking ways to improve my planning skills and follow-through
    19 points by skuuuLaPoo 4 days ago | 7 comments
19. Ask HN: How do you teach your kids about AI?
    16 points by markun 3 days ago | 16 comments
20. Ask HN: Casual Math Book Suggestions
    10 points by vriendspookstem 4 days ago | 6 comments
21. Show HN: Read any book frictionlessly with AI-powered hierarchical navigation (www.proread.ai)
    5 points by kanodiaashu 5 days ago | discuss
22. Show HN: Book to help you build a PostgreSQL-like database server from scratch (technicaldeft.com)
    5 points by zetter 11 days ago | discuss
23. Ask HN: What are the most "upvoted" things you can buy here? Here are a few
    2 points by 01-_- about 11 hours ago | discuss
24. Tintin, Hergé and Chang – A Friendship That Changed the World (thewire.in)
    24 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 4 comments
25. Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover (standardebooks.org)
    1213 points by tosh 2 months ago | 247 comments
26. Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org)
    701 points by pauloxnet over 1 year ago | 153 comments
27. Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease (johnfactotum.github.io)
    639 points by ingve 11 months ago | 133 comments
28. Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc. (github.com)
    516 points by bukacdan 9 months ago | 57 comments
29. Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks (blog.the-ebook-reader.com)
    467 points by DavideNL 4 months ago | 346 comments
30. Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M (claudio.uk)
    420 points by csantini 5 months ago | 246 comments
31. KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader (github.com)
    420 points by charleshan 3 months ago | 106 comments
32. Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses (standardebooks.org)
    367 points by robin_reala about 1 year ago | 128 comments
33. Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app (github.com)
    338 points by phildenhoff over 1 year ago | 159 comments
34. Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks (smoores.gitlab.io)
    338 points by smoores over 1 year ago | 67 comments
35. DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019) (www.libraryjournal.com)
    307 points by meristohm over 1 year ago | 242 comments
36. Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader (github.com)
    280 points by microflash almost 2 years ago | 156 comments
37. Libraries struggle to afford e-books, seek new laws in fight with publishers (abcnews.go.com)
    269 points by notRobot over 1 year ago | 194 comments
38. Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks (github.com)
    263 points by mawise 10 months ago | 57 comments
39. Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made (www.vox.com)
    247 points by crescit_eundo about 1 year ago | 145 comments
40. Pagination widows, or, why I'm embarrassed about my eBook (2023) (clagnut.com)
    223 points by OuterVale 7 months ago | 133 comments
41. Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending (www.theverge.com)
    200 points by james_pm 10 months ago | 4 comments
42. The Anti-Ownership eBook Economy (www.nyuengelberg.org)
    183 points by Tomte almost 2 years ago | 275 comments
43. Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature (standardebooks.org)
    141 points by WithinReason 6 months ago | 25 comments
44. Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB" (goodereader.com)
    133 points by m463 4 months ago | 99 comments
45. E-books are becoming tools of corporate surveillance (www.fastcompany.com)
    123 points by the-mitr over 1 year ago | 90 comments
46. When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016) (teresaelsey.medium.com)
    110 points by tomodachi94 10 months ago | 90 comments
47. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh as an accessible eBook (tilde.zone)
    102 points by sohkamyung 6 months ago | 16 comments
48. Show HN: Transform any website or eBook into a research paper (no LLM required) (github.com)
    96 points by jstrieb almost 2 years ago | 15 comments
49. “Ansible for DevOps” eBook by Jeff Geerling Is Now Free (leanpub.com)
    89 points by codetrotter almost 2 years ago | 21 comments
50. Planet eBook: free literature for your device (www.planetebook.com)
    64 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 20 comments
51. Ask HN: If I buy a physical book why is the eBook not free?
    62 points by quietthrow over 1 year ago | 56 comments
52. Ask HN: What are the best eBook authoring tools today?
    62 points by warrenm over 1 year ago | 27 comments
53. The Bitter Reality of Ebooks and the Kindle Model (diessi.ca)
    38 points by diessica over 1 year ago | 60 comments
54. Ask HN: Best way for a Markdown based blog and eBook?
    35 points by apineda about 1 year ago | 23 comments