For those who might be looking for a desktop application, Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/ is an awesome FOSS ebook manager. Organizes, converts between formats, etc.
While Calibre is a brilliant application for basic document management and conversion it should be mentioned that it is highly unlikely that it will convert a PDF eBook perfectly. I've got a bunch of free CS books I've collected over the years and outside of plain-text books it's struggled to convert everything.
I'm pretty happy to not see PDFs anymore -- especially for ebooks.
I can easily convert these to PDFs, but I can actually read them on my Kindle or iPad. I can't do that the other way around from PDF (though I technically can read a PDF on either, it's a far less pleasant experience).
Thanks for converting those to PDF, unfortunately none of the hyperlinks work either in browser, or in a PDF reader like OS X's preview. Don't know about Windows or Linux.
The C one is using the most incredibly small font I've ever seen in a document. It took me a while to realize there was actual content in the pages. Then I zoomed in a thousand or so percent and could make out words.
Just convert them with Calibre to whatever format you want. Mobi is much better than PDF as a starting point to convert to other formats, ebook formats in general are much more flexible and convertible. Converting from PDF to ebook is such a pain...
I downloaded those where I already know the technology well. That way, I hope to pick up a couple of neat tips and tricks every once in a while when I have a few minutes to read.
erobots = ignore robots, for some reason this site blocks wget
also, -i filename.txt will grab a list of urls for a file and download them, so no need for 'wget <url>'. adding -F will treat that local file as HTML and grab all the links out of it for download.
I just submitted the page to HN, after seeing it in Spolsky or Atwood's twitter feed, I didn't design it. I think the curator has his contact details on that site though, if care to ask him directly.
I found that these were actually a bit tricky to convert to PDF, with even (normally) reliable tools like Calibre outputting PDFs with really small text... I stumbled across mobi2html, part of mobiperl (https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/mobiperl).
Apart from a couple of character encoding bugs, it seems to do a good job. I've uploaded the eBooks as html here:
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Otherwise you can use calibre to convert it to epub.
(Kindle app might do it if it can load books as mobi is native kindle format)
http://www.docspal.com/
(Edit: wow, that was terrible. Not one of the converts worked out properly. apologies if, like me, you downloaded them all)
http://www.faqoverflow.com/
Instead of eBooks, the content is visible directly in the browser.
np = don't follow up to parent
nd = don't recreate directories locally
A = file extensions to dl
erobots = ignore robots, for some reason this site blocks wget
also, -i filename.txt will grab a list of urls for a file and download them, so no need for 'wget <url>'. adding -F will treat that local file as HTML and grab all the links out of it for download.
Nevermind, figured it out. Downloaded Amazon Kindle, moved the downloaded file to the kindle folder in the sdcard.
http://ghewgill.livejournal.com/145305.html
Apart from a couple of character encoding bugs, it seems to do a good job. I've uploaded the eBooks as html here:
http://alexpeattie.com/stackoverflow/html/
I've then been using FF/Chrome and a print-to-PDF driver to make PDFs (again, the only method that worked for me) which I'm uploading here:
http://alexpeattie.com/stackoverflow/
PDFs are taking a while to generate, esp. the larger ones. If anyone can find a faster method to convert the html files, let me know!