What technical-ish books do you recommend that are readable on Kindle?

post by Rudi C (rudi-c) · 2021-01-03T20:54:57.916Z · LW · GW · No comments

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I am looking for nonfiction non-historical books that aren’t too dumbed-down/light (essentially, a book that needs careful reading, not something skimmable), but still readable on an e-reader such as Kindle (so equations should be very scarce, and the book should be available in a reflowable format such as EPUB). 
 

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answer by algon33 · 2021-01-03T23:20:18.649Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The strategy of conflict is condensed instrumental rationality. Much of the content is covered elsewhere, but I don't know of a superior qualatative presentation.

Talking about qualatative presentations, thinking physics is a set of hundreds of physics problems, designed to show how important conservation laws and infinitesimals are. The problems are all solvable with some careful thought, and cover quite a deal of ground. I wish more books were written in this way. 

comment by Panashe Fundira (panashe-fundira) · 2021-01-16T19:24:08.796Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

FYI this link doesn't go anywhere

Here's a link to the book's Goodreads page

answer by Derek M. Jones · 2021-01-04T15:09:00.856Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

If you are into data analysis and software engineering there is my book Evidence-based software engineering.

 

pdf+data+code here: http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/

comment by Rudi C (rudi-c) · 2021-01-05T17:17:25.929Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

PDF is not reflowable. EPUB or MOBI would be much better.

answer by Yoav Ravid · 2021-01-03T21:44:33.934Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I'm currently reading on kindle app on a tablet The Logic of Political Survival which seems to fit your description. it does have one chapter with quite a bit of math, and that part wasn't as good as it is on PDF, but it was better than i expected it to be. so all in all, recommended in general, and on kindle.

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