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by gabegm 1084 days ago
This doesn't work for me, most pages are blank.
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prabhu-yu 1084 days ago
Did you try print to pdf in browser?
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squarefoot 1084 days ago
I got the same result: all pages after the Foreword at page 4 and except a couple towards the end are blank. I tried printing to PDF, then the Save to PDF function of the FoxyTab Firefox extension; I also tried to save it a a single file using the SingleFileZ extension that saves pages and data using a compressed single file (thus no conversion to PDF) which is directly readable by Firefox. No way, always blank pages after the Foreword. Not sure if that's a protection scheme or a bad conversion from pdf, but to me being forced to be online and use a browser to read a book kills any interest.
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prabhu-yu 1084 days ago
About protection: I see book is in github as a public repo. I will try to print with my pdf tools. Please give me some time.
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snvzz 1084 days ago
Just link the repo?

With the right tools, it can likely be used to compile the book into a proper PDF, rather than using print workarounds.

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prabhu-yu 1084 days ago
Repo Link: https://github.com/eborin/riscv-programming I may be wrong. I am not able to see the content of the book. (I thought, above repo has the content.). More ever, I see copyright notice in the book. So, it is open for reading purpose only.

Seems, reading the book on the browser is the only option, that is how I did it since many weeks.

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snvzz 1084 days ago
This is the generated book. Pretty sad.

Fortunately, as mentioned in my post at the root level, there's PDFs available in the usual archivist libraries.

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