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Wonderful!

I grew up fascinated by some of the books from MIR publisher sI could lay my hands on.

> Many of the titles are also published in hard copy form by low-cost Indian publishers on Amazon India.

Any way to quickly filter for these? (Other than of course searching for each book by title)

Thanks!

EDIT:

The one or two titles I found were not really priced economically --

https://www.amazon.in/Satellite-typhoon-Eye-Science-everyone...

https://www.amazon.in/Our-Planet-Earth-Alexei-Byalko/dp/0828...

https://www.amazon.in/Yakov-Perelman%C2%92s-Physics-Entertai...

> Any way to quickly filter for these? (Other than of course searching for each book by title)

Search for author name and/or title name. Generally the Indian publishers only publish well-known and famous textbooks/exambooks since they are the ones which sell the most. Eg. Piskunov (Calculus in 2 vols), Irodov (Physics problems) etc. The publishers are CBS Publishers, Arihant Publishers, Aargon Press etc.

The links you have listed are for the original Mir publications from 1970s/1980s which are collector's items today and hence some enterprising individuals are selling them at a markup on Amazon.

Finally, the best way to build up your personal library and enjoy books today, is to get the largest screen Android tablet that you can afford and install a ereader app like Moon+ReaderPro (https://www.moondownload.com/) and start downloading ;-)

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