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There are several threads for book sharing. There is one in /lambda/, another one in /diy/ and at least two in /lit/. This wouldn't cause me to start a thread in /q/ if it werent for the fact that most of them have a least a book on lisp or python, or something related to programming, where they clearly do not belong! It is at least irritating to see these off-topic books show up everywhere. Programming books should be limited to the programming board. On a related note, there are math threads scattered all over the place. And a math books thread and a math&physics book thread just beside it in the catalog. Sure, one could add them to one's watchlist, but it is still a bad case of thread duplication. I suggest this be better controlled. A single math general, and perhaps one math&physics book thread. At least a single math thread per board. I could conceive a math thread in /hum/ be of a different nature that the one in /lambda/... And about programming books, I may be going too far, but I think one should not just take a bunch of mediocre python books one hasn't even read and batch-upload them on the thread. Causes noise. It may be a gray area telling them apart, but if someone uploads 9 of them all nearly identical, I'd say thay's a pretty safe bet.

Doesn't Lainchan already have only 1 math general in /lambda/? Though yeah, I kind of see your point, there's a couple of programming books posted in the /diy/ pdf share thread but then again programming could be considered a /diy/ topic...

What's the point of book sharing threads? Why not, for example, upload it to LibGen? If it's a matter of discovering good books.. why are there so many crap books? And even the books I know are good, most are described poorly, so that it's indistinguishable from a crap book, unless you already know it's a good book---but then you already know it's good. Another thing that could improve it, is comparing similar books, so that I might better know which of them would be better fit to me. OK, suppose it's about recommending/finding good books. But what's the context? If it's pure literature or fiction velsim, that's fine, but if it's a course or reference book, wouldn't it be better to recommend it in the context of whatever that course describes? e.g. in a thread about learning a certain something, we might discuss various ways to learn it, including various coursebooks. In a pure sharethread, that context is removed.

>>9105 Yes... there are actually 3 math threads on /lit/, that's what I meant. And I think programming books should be limited to the programming board, unless it is about arduino which is a somewhat gray area. >>9106 More or less exactly what I mean, there is no point in just dumping a bunch of mediocre books (beginners' books one hasn't even read and have little to contribute outside being a beginner's book) My point is that those threads should not be abused, and abuse should not be tolerated as much as it is. Just because it's a pdf shouldn't mean it can just be put in there. If we care about low effort posts, why are pdf dumps not under the same policy? And I don't mean tight control, I'm talking about very specific abuse that is clearly outside the intended goal of such threads.

>mediocre beginners' books I must, of course, interject, that some beginners books, are excellent. >If we care about low effort posts, why are pdf dumps not under the same policy? Some music threads, too, become mere lists. I think the policy should be: if you recommend a resource---a book, a song, a site, whatever---you should describe it well enough that I can have utile prejudice about it.

>>9109 >some beginners books, are excellent. Ah yes, that should go without saying, and I never meant the opposite.