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Rotated version:

http://i.imgur.com/pKscQRm.jpg

Edit: working on typing these up with links, Tesseract couldn't handle it :P

Anyone know how to retrieve Amazon links from book titles?

If anyone wants to help: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lWnncM61FsDb47jMheTc...

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Thanks.

Edit: I tried running the image against couple of OCRs but was futile.

Found categorized list [0] on his site. May be dated.

[0] http://worrydream.com/#!/Links

Procrastination to the rescue! I want this list for myself so I decided to hand-transcribe it while I avoid doing a bit of real work. I'm 1/5 of the way through but figured I'd share what I've got so far:

(edit: deleted link, use Jack's instead)

Haha, damn. Was about to suggest we merge spreadsheets but we've both done the same bit!

Come join?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lWnncM61FsDb47jMheTc...

I'm on it!

Although I SHUDDER to think of the combined hourly billing rate of everyone who's contributing here :)

I had some code that converts amazon links to a buy list (with price). Used that against the current version of the list to generate this: https://gist.github.com/captn3m0/d34dbb6ca67e958e75a4

Will get this content back on the spreadsheet if I get some time later tonight.

I've perused that list before! We've finished reading off the titles now; nearly 600 books. People have started adding Amazon links.

Also started badgering Bret over the unmarked books. It's been a fun evening.

you are missing:

"A Shorter Model Theory" by Hodges

"Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction" by Sutton and Barto

"Neuro-Dynamic Programming" by Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis

"Set Theory An Introduction To Independence Proofs" by Kunen

"Naive Set Theory" by Halmos

Hah – I took my own photos of this bookshelf while visiting. Perhaps there are missing gems ;P https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g2dlzq39f8x3wf7/AABWlnT5NvPEZ0ycp...

Thanks so much everyone for compiling a list! I like to save such lists and take pictures of good books and bookshelves I come across. Full collection is here: https://www.are.na/morgan-sutherland/books-to-read--2.

... and Google Play Books links. I buy everything from there. Cheaper, and, may I say, probably a better reader app (I like that it collects highlighted text excerpts in a google doc on drive, etc).

Thanks for the rotated version. Bookstores and Libraries should stack their books like that (except in the chiropractic business section) :-)

That would make it quite difficult to retrieve the book at the bottom of the stack.

Have you try to slice the image into several dozens pieces?

Some portions are just too low resolution due to print sizes etc

Figured it would take longer to OCR it than to do it manually in this case

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