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Are any of these worth reading? I know most of the past IT ebook bundles have consisted of ~80% useless ebooks.

If this is legit and DRM-free, yes, there are a few books in there that are worth reading. I own hard copies of:

* Hadoop: the definitive guide

* Cassandra: The definitive guide

And they are both excellent books. I have heard good things about:

* Think Stats/Think Bayes

* Learning Spark/High Performance Spark

EDIT: I just bought the bundle. The PDFs seem legit and DRM-free -- O'Reilly no longer offers DRM-free ebooks, so this is useful.

Humble Bundle is, indeed, legit.

Humble Bundle content is DRM-free. Once you pay you get download links in your e-mail for downloading the content. Books are offered in PDF, ePub and Mobi formats. You can back up the books and/or keep the e-mail for future.

If you sign up for an account you can also save your purchase to your account and then access all the purchases made through the library.

Just a note that Think Stats/Think Bayes are available for free on the authors website: http://greenteapress.com/wp/

Is this a good book to start with?

It's designed for teaching statistics to people who are already proficient at programming. I learned statistics first then learned programming so I can't really say from experience how good it as but I like the examples and the writing is clear.

I have R in a nutshell. It is a pretty good reference but maybe a little brief and outdated.

Note: The default donation split gives most of the money to O'Reilly and Humble Bundle, not Code for America.

Good point. I just bought the $15 and changed the distribution a bit to give CfA more, Humble Bundles less.

Kinda odd that 2 of the books in the 15$ bundle are available for free (the "think..." books also published by green tea press)

Looks like the Make: Electronics bundle is back.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/electronics-programming-m...

I missed that the last time

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