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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by jimhefferon on Saturday December 21, 2019 @09:47AM (#21851389)
Lots of nice links there, thanks.

There needs to be a CMBAN, a Comprehensive Math Book Archive Network. It would fight link rot, allow an author to upload versions as they change and give a blurb as well as version notes, and allow a downloader to know if the book is free or Free, etc. There are some sites that archive some sets but I know of no site that tries to be comprehensive.

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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by mpiedrav on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:47AM (#21851692)
Perhaps a combination of LaTeX/PreTeXt and Open Monograph Press [1] will do :D

The idea is to allow authors using LaTeX/PreTeXt to pipeline the document+sources to a repository (think GitHub Pages for math textbooks), as well as preserving existing free content whose sources are lost (e.g., old out-of-print books).

[1] https://pkp.sfu.ca/omp

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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by EncryptEntropy on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:20AM (#21851878)
Seems they should be up on project Gutenberg as well as a category on archive.org.
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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by haolez on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:39AM (#21851656)
Maybe AcademicTorrents might be used. Is it still a thing?
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