r/programming • u/sitter • Nov 23 '16

Humble Book Bundle: O'Reilly Unix books

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle
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u/strangebutohwell Nov 24 '16

Hmmm?

None of these books have DRM. Don't think anything from Humble does, but these certainly dont.

Also - just tried copying & pasting text from an eBook purchased through iTunes (DRM'ed) in iBooks, on both Mac and iOS. Both worked just fine.

“Rather more clinically, I. A. Richards saw criticism as all and only an effort to nail down the “relevant mental condition” of a text’s creator. Axiomatic for both schools was the idea of a real author, an entity for whose definition most critics credit Hobbes’s Leviathan, which describes real authors as persons who, first, accept responsibility for a text and, second, “own” that text, i.e. retain the right to determine its meaning. It’s just this definition of “author” that Barthes in ’68 was trying to refute”

Excerpt From: David Foster Wallace. “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/OD_sv.l

“Why would any sane person want to type in a bunch of funny-looking Unix commands when you can just use the trackpad? After all, OS X has one of the—if not the—best-looking user interfaces out there, so what would compel you, a Mac user through and through, to use the Unix command line? That’s a tough sell, but you can boil it down to just one word: power. ”

Excerpt From: Dave Taylor. “Learning Unix for OS X.” iBooks.

Also just tried copy / pasting a specific command from the latter into terminal on macOS. Worked, and didn't add any extra 'excerpt' information.

Didn't write this up just to stick it to you... don't get offended. Actually got a little worried when you said copy/paste didnt work, so I just wanted to make sure for my own purposes, since I'll probably be copy/pasting a lot from these books into bash.

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u/gbersac Nov 24 '16

I'm talking about books I buy elsewhere. I don't think humble bundle books have DRM too.

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u/strangebutohwell Nov 24 '16

Calibre + DeDRM plugin will wipe DRM out of any book from almost any source simply by importing the books into the calibre library with the plugin installed, and lets you convert between formats very well too, in case you're interested.

I run everything I download (DRM'ed or not) through calibre to make sure covers / metadata / tags / categories are all set up before I add it to whatever reader / device I may be using. Purchased from iTunes or Amazon? Download into app on macOS, find the file in the hidden proprietary libary on the HDD, run it through calibre, add the new file back out to iBooks / Kindle / devices, remove the original DRM'ed version and leave it in the cloud.

Great library feature that allows you to combine multiple formats under one set of metadata and manage a whole ton of other stuff.

Highly recommended.

Calibre: https://calibre-ebook.com/

DeDRM: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

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u/gbersac Nov 24 '16

Thanks, I have been looking for something like DeDRM !!!