HACKER Q&A
📣 L0in

I have 20-25€ for books – What few books do you recommend?


Generally i'm poor. I live with 100€ per month and currently looking for a job, because I bearly make ends meet. A family friend gifted me a few euros and I want to finally buy books, Which I haven't done for a while now.

Few information about me to help you with your recommendation(s):

* I'm 2nd year CS student in Greece

* I'm interested in hardware and user security. Also in security education of vulnerable population.

* Politically i consider my self anarco-communist (black and red flag).

* I'm dyslexic

* I started studying maths "from the beginning" because I love their usefulness but also their cognitive beauty. Trying to throw away the psychological abuse I experienced during my school years.

* I love post-punk, dark wave, rap, punk, rock, IDM, techno.

* I love dark and romantic poetry: Baudelaire, Sylvia Plath, Katerina gogou, Thanos anestopoulos, Kavafis.

* One of my favorite movies is felini's "La dolce vita"

* I believe strongly on autodidactism and self-education. With the occasional help of experts/mentors.


  👤 jstx1 Accepted Answer ✓
> I live with 100€ per month and currently looking for a job, because I bearly make ends meet.

In your situation, I wouldn't spend any money on books.

1. Use a library if there's one available to you.

2. There's tonnes of free books online - if you want fiction, project Gutenberg is full of older books; and every technical/CS/math topic has great free textbooks that you can download.

3. Pirating - I wouldn't feel guilty about it at all if I were in your situation.


👤 driftwood94
You can try downloading books from pdfdrive.com

I know piracy is not a good thing. But you'll have to put any moral concerns on back-burner until you make it.

Then when you reach your goals and you have the financial power, you can give back to help improve society.


👤 Vladimof
You could preview books at https://libgen.is/ before you buy...