"Steal This Book" Available for free Download

[Nate the great]

The first alpha release of Steal This Book Today has been released to the public and is available for download. This is an easy way to have an offline guidebook copy of the Steal This Book update for your computer or PDA, it is also what you need to print your own hard copy. It is split into four volumes and is over 500 pages of the most useful street and homeless survival combined with plenty of ways to fight oppression of all sorts. An alpha release is the first test release, some features are not complete or polished. Download it, print it, share it, edit it, steal it Today!

http://wiki.stealthiswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

[Patricia]

There's a paradoxical injunction. If it's a gift then how can one steal it?

[jamesdmanley]

an ebook about how to be homeless?

[stxopher]

Originally Posted by jamesdmanley

an ebook about how to be homeless?

An ebook containing a section on surviving in a homeless situation would be more like it. Lotta reasons to be homeless. Most don't involve the common image of people in bathrobes mumbling randomly while pushing their scavenged shopping cart. I've known more than a few homeless who still had laptops and email even though they had no actual address or food security.

Though if you consider what this book is for, it makes more sense than if you just consider one part of it. (One of my favorites so I'm biased. Always found myself strongly agreeing/disagreeing/confused by it's contents so it fits well into my "let me think about this a bit" category.)

Come to think of it, always liked the Anarchists Cookbook too. Different reason though. (More of an "evolution in action" thing there. Swear that thing was written to supply a steady stream of Darwin prize winners among the violent and foolish.)

[jamesdmanley]

just an uneducated opinion, but i dont think too many homeless people have ebook readers. its just a little ironic to me. good post though. free is always good and priced just right for the homeless e-readers!

[nekokami]

It's not an ebook about how to be homeless. It's a counter-culture book (or rather, an update of a rather famous counter-culture book first published decades ago). Read the table of contents at the wiki for more info.

As for homeless access to ebooks, not everyone uses a snazzy dedicated e ink reader. Public libraries often provide internet access. Publishing the book online, free, means that the authors (updaters) don't have to worry about getting libraries to carry it. They just need to work to get the word out to those who can make use of the info they provide.