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O'Reilly Hacks + Google Book Search = Free Books
Read Most of O’Reilly’s Hacks Books for Free Using Google: This works. I tried it for curiosity’s sake, and, sure enough, you can read page after page of tons of O’Reilly books. How is this not a huge hole?
Anyway, I have found a way to read most of their terrific hacks for free using Google Book Search - at least for now. This trick, by the way, works for lots of books, like travel guides. See the end of this post for how I hacked the Frommer’s travel series.
Reminds me of Google-hacking. When does the power of something get so great that it can be used against itself?
What This Links To
Googledorks
I'm j0hnny. I hack stuff.: This is a little disturbing. We call them 'googledorks': An inept or foolish person as revealed by Google. Whatever you call these fools, you've found the center of the Google Hacking Universe! For example, this search that reveals 178 FrontPage password files. The passwords are hashed,…
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When I try to view the pages of "TiVo Hacks" on Google Books I get a "Restricted Page" error. Hmm..
The loophole is of O'Reilly's making. They've very liberal in hw they allow Google to display their book's contents.
if any one want google book. Please send the link of that book to my mail id vickydeveloper@gmail.com. i will send you the book in PDF format for FREE.
@Vicky, will send U a link for U to help out, thanks.
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