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I’m similar to you. I recently went as far as to buy a pdf for an out of print book and then paid to have it printed and bound. I suppose a remarkable would be

I’m similar to you. I recently went as far as to buy a pdf for an out of print book and then paid to have it printed and bound. I suppose a remarkable would be another route but… they are pricey.

guiambros 9mo ago
Same; avid reader of printed books here. I have more pdfs I can count (most coming from Humble Bundle impulse buying), but nothing beats physical books for me. I got a remarkable pro, and it's just slightly better than screen. Being able to annotate books is actually a welcomed addition, and the screen is pretty decent. But flipping screen is slow (compared to a printed book), and going back and forth between pages is a hassle. Until we have the speed of a tablet (read: instant), with the screen quality of an e-ink, I don't think I'll voluntarily retire printed books. Now, I have an O'Reilly subscription (two actually, through school and ACM), but the app is sadly horrendous, as OP mentioned. Hard to believe this is actually their core business.
- zero-sharp 9mo ago
  I don't know if HN gives you notifications when you get replies so I'm going to reply to this post regarding https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=46179347&goto=item%3Fid%3D46175826%2346179347 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=46179347&goto=item%3Fi... How are you able to download the videos to begin with?
  - guiambros 9mo ago
    oh hi! If you're an OMSCS student, most courses offer the download through Ed or Canvas. Usually it's a big zip file under the first lesson, but I've seen some available in the shared Dropbox. I've seen this for GIOS, ML4T, ML, and a few others. Or you can just reach out to the TAs. If you're not a student, then it gets a bit tricky. Some courses are available as YouTube playlists or on Coursera, but then it becomes a hassle to download and piece together hundreds of individual files. Feel free to drop me a note (email in my profile), or open an issue on github.
    - zero-sharp 9mo ago
      Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I'm not a student there. I just saw that they were making some of their lessons publicly available and wanted to organize the material for myself. I'm experiencing their courseware through the 2 minute long micro lessons on the Ed platform and I don't see any way to download the videos. Seems like I'm stuck using Ed.
      - guiambros 9mo ago
        Some courses are widely available on YT [1], and already in the more palatable (IMO) long-form format instead of hundreds of 1-2 min snippets. Some other courses you can find download links somewhere [2]. So yeah, it's a bit of a hassle, and but you can probably still piece it together for some/most courses that are publicly available. [1] https://www.youtube.com/@manx6092/playlists https://www.youtube.com/@manx6092/playlists [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/comments/zjbh8i/cs_6200_lectures/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/comments/zjbh8i/cs_6200_lectu...

I’m similar to you. I recently went as far as to buy a pdf for an out of print book and then paid to have it printed and bound. I suppose a remarkable would be another route but… they are pricey.

guiambros 9mo ago

Same; avid reader of printed books here. I have more pdfs I can count (most coming from Humble Bundle impulse buying), but nothing beats physical books for me. I got a remarkable pro, and it's just slightly better than screen. Being able to annotate books is actually a welcomed addition, and the screen is pretty decent. But flipping screen is slow (compared to a printed book), and going back and forth between pages is a hassle. Until we have the speed of a tablet (read: instant), with the screen quality of an e-ink, I don't think I'll voluntarily retire printed books. Now, I have an O'Reilly subscription (two actually, through school and ACM), but the app is sadly horrendous, as OP mentioned. Hard to believe this is actually their core business.

zero-sharp 9mo ago
I don't know if HN gives you notifications when you get replies so I'm going to reply to this post regarding https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=46179347&goto=item%3Fid%3D46175826%2346179347 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=46179347&goto=item%3Fi... How are you able to download the videos to begin with?
- guiambros 9mo ago
  oh hi! If you're an OMSCS student, most courses offer the download through Ed or Canvas. Usually it's a big zip file under the first lesson, but I've seen some available in the shared Dropbox. I've seen this for GIOS, ML4T, ML, and a few others. Or you can just reach out to the TAs. If you're not a student, then it gets a bit tricky. Some courses are available as YouTube playlists or on Coursera, but then it becomes a hassle to download and piece together hundreds of individual files. Feel free to drop me a note (email in my profile), or open an issue on github.
  - zero-sharp 9mo ago
    Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I'm not a student there. I just saw that they were making some of their lessons publicly available and wanted to organize the material for myself. I'm experiencing their courseware through the 2 minute long micro lessons on the Ed platform and I don't see any way to download the videos. Seems like I'm stuck using Ed.
    - guiambros 9mo ago
      Some courses are widely available on YT [1], and already in the more palatable (IMO) long-form format instead of hundreds of 1-2 min snippets. Some other courses you can find download links somewhere [2]. So yeah, it's a bit of a hassle, and but you can probably still piece it together for some/most courses that are publicly available. [1] https://www.youtube.com/@manx6092/playlists https://www.youtube.com/@manx6092/playlists [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/comments/zjbh8i/cs_6200_lectures/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/comments/zjbh8i/cs_6200_lectu...