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Ask HN: I have 20-25€ for books – What few books do you recommend?
2 points by _yigw 1520 days ago
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.

3 comments

> 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.

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.

You could preview books at https://libgen.is/ before you buy...
I know,thank you... :)