The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

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TheChaplain•about 2 hours ago

I am not a believer, but pray that whichever $DEITY is watching over Donald Knuth allows him a healthy and long life to reach the achievement of finishing volume 7.

ocd•about 1 hour ago

I'm sure most of it is above my head, but I purchased the entire set in a mispricing for approximately ~$40 some time ago, and I'm really happy to have it in my library.

jagged-chisel•about 3 hours ago

About $340 for the full set of eBooks.

Also: "Please do not tell me about errors that you find in an eBook, whether it's PDF or not, unless the same errors are present in a printed copy; such mistakes should be reported directly to the publisher."

Glad he thought to mention this, but I suspect his inbox will still be inundated.

fmajid•about 2 hours ago

He doesn't have an inbox:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

jagged-chisel•about 1 hour ago

Inboxes don’t have to be digital. Inboxes, digital or physical, can be handled by other people.

In any case, someone beyond the publisher will still get inundated with corrections about the PDFs and likely will demand their reward for it.

WillAdams•about 2 hours ago

E-mails which are sent in about the various books used to be printed out and responded to --- I got a $2.88 physical reward check for finding an error and a point of improvement in _Digital Typography_. Not sure how they are handled now. Trying to find an error or point of improvement in v4f7 so that I can get an account at:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html

(usually, I do find errors in books, esp. e-books, which reminds me, I need to pick up the corrected 3rd printing of _The Fall of Arthur_ by J.R.R. Tolkien before I read it again, since that should have the error I found corrected).

fmajid•about 1 hour ago

Yes, that article has an email for TAOCP corrections, that are processed by his secretary.

sourdecor•about 2 hours ago

I really like the books listed in the link to American Scientist's book recommendations[0] on that page.

[0]: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/100-or-so-books-th...

small_model•about 2 hours ago

Don't feed the pdfs into Fable, compile a email of errors -> Knuth

philips•about 3 hours ago

Where can the books be found in PDFs for purchase?! First time I have heard of a non paperback novel.

Obviously I know I can probably find them on the high seas.

ndr•about 3 hours ago

From TFA:

> The authorized PDF versions can be purchased at www.informit.com/taocp

philips•about 3 hours ago

Ha. Thank you! Strange it is only from one store.

disgruntledphd2•about 2 hours ago

They're really good quality though (even if they are very expensive).

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