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Re:The Hacker Shelf: Collection of free books for the intell... by faizshah on Thursday May 28, 2015 @07:31AM (#9617328)
In the US you can get access to worldcat at a lot of university, community college, and public libraries to get interlibrary loans from many different participating institutions. I have gotten so many obscure technical books on loan using this service, like "Bipartite Graphs and their Applications" (it's a good read).

The only problem is if you forget to renew the book you have to pay the fine at the institution it's on loan from. :(

https://www.worldcat.org/

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Re:The Hacker Shelf: Collection of free books for the intell... by EliRivers on Thursday May 28, 2015 @07:49AM (#9617423)
The only problem is if you forget to renew the book you have to pay the fine at the institution it's on loan from. :(

Isn't that the truth. I had a history book from the British Library and the fine began at a hundred and something pounds for the first day late, and went up from there. I took a picture of the fine warning and stuck it to my monitor so I wouldn't forget.

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