July 1st, 2024

Graham Essays: Full Collection of PG Essays in ePub, PDF and Markdowng

The GitHub repository offers 200+ essays by Paul Graham in EPUB and Markdown formats. Regularly updated, users can download the complete set and explore the current list. Instructions for downloading and contributing are provided.

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Graham Essays: Full Collection of PG Essays in ePub, PDF and Markdowng

The GitHub repository contains a collection of over 200 essays by Paul Graham, available in EPUB and Markdown formats for easy reading. The collection is regularly updated, and the complete set can be downloaded from the releases page. A list of current essays is also accessible for exploration. Instructions on using the Makefile to download and export the essays are provided in the repository. Users are encouraged to offer feedback or suggestions for enhancing the collection by opening issues or pull requests on the GitHub repository.

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By @mtlynch - 5 months
Creating a tool that allows people to aggregate writing from a website is fine. This project goes one step further and shares a copy of Graham's writing as an ePub on Github,[0] which I don't think is ethical or legal.

It's Graham's writing, and he can choose how to publish, but if you're not the author or copyright holder, you shouldn't be republishing someone else's writing without their approval.

[0] https://github.com/ofou/graham-essays/releases/download/late...

By @algernonramone - 5 months
This is great, and I will download it, but I might be missing something because I don't see the PDF? I guess I will stick to the epub.
By @kkfx - 5 months
A nice example of the power of text, seriously. Changing formats, importing and manipulating information is the power of computing as the power to actually compute things, and should be VERY WELL considered in the present time not only about preserving information but also about freedom to access information.

Stating the above, this script might get a load spike on someone else service, witch is not that good, a better idea IMVHO is do it once, than publish results as a popcorn time style (torrent) format so anyone interested give a bit of resources without touching the origin website.

Aside again I imaging PG was contacted before this initiative to be polite anyway.

By @WoodenChair - 5 months
Is this done with permission from Graham? What's the license?