<story><title>MIT Press: Open Access Materials</title><url>https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access?tab=collection</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smelendez</author><text>Thank you for sharing this!&lt;p&gt;I recently really enjoyed Art + DIY Electronics (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262361576&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262361576&lt;/a&gt;), which probably has a lot of relevance to the HN crowd and some great descriptions of projects like Laura Kikauka’s absurdist analog virtual reality suit Hairbrain 2000, pollution-hunting Feral Robotic Dogs adapted from secondhand toys by New York teens, and work by the Burning Man-adjacent Survival Research Laboratory.&lt;p&gt;Selling the American People (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262374248&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262374248&lt;/a&gt;) was also a great history of what you might call proto adtech, including things like ad execs hyping what they could do with &amp;#x27;60s computers, Sears running analytics on when to send customers new catalogs, and &amp;#x27;90s dreams of buying fashion from TV sitcoms. I didn&amp;#x27;t realize this one was free and actually bought the Kindle edition, which was well worth it.&lt;p&gt;Balkan Cyberia (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262373265&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262373265&lt;/a&gt;) also looks fascinating for anyone interested in Eastern bloc computer history.</text></comment>
<story><title>MIT Press: Open Access Materials</title><url>https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access?tab=collection</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ssrc</author><text>It seems they don&amp;#x27;t have all the books that are on MIT open access. I can&amp;#x27;t find &amp;quot;The Art of Prolog&amp;quot;[1], for example. But maybe they are downloading only the ones with the &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; tag like &amp;quot;Turtle Geometry&amp;quot;[2] (Last time I looked at this one it was one pdf for each chapter).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;9780262691635&amp;#x2F;the-art-of-prolog&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;9780262691635&amp;#x2F;the-art-of-prolog&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;direct.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;books&amp;#x2F;oa-monograph&amp;#x2F;4663&amp;#x2F;Turtle-GeometryThe-Computer-as-a-Medium-for&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;direct.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;books&amp;#x2F;oa-monograph&amp;#x2F;4663&amp;#x2F;Turtle-Geomet...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>