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Great resource - thanks! Is the 'generate epub' function still borked post-attack by any chance? I've noticed that it's taking forever for one of those books.

That generate epub thing is a bit of a hack, I'd stick with the PDFs myself.

It's such a shame MIT don't make sure all their books are available as epub files themselves - they're so, so much more accessible...

Does your method of mirroring allow MIT to collect use/download metrics? Because MIT Press is able to pub OA because of grant funding & other things that mean they have to prove circulation stats…

The IA does show how many views of files there have been, e.g., archive.org/details/mit_... By the way, this is much better information that I myself provide to the Press by making this same PDF available at 10-print.org where it has been downloaded, I believe, at least 20,000 times

Thanks! Always curious about data.

Thank you, Jason! My Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, 2nd Ed. is also OA from MIT Press but when it was originally published MITP posted only the HTML version. I put the ePub and PDF on the IA: nickm.com/ep2e/

Nice! FYI looks like this one needs its title updated: archive.org/details/mit_...