Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom(undark.org)
839 points by novaRom | 406 comments
Undark article on Sweden shifting classrooms away from digital screens and back to printed books.
#textbooks on Hacker News
6 stories tagged textbooks, newest first.
Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI(research.google)
333 points by FromTheArchives | 228 comments
Google Research blog post introducing Learn Your Way, a generative AI project that transforms textbooks into personalized, interactive learning materials.
Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds(torrentfreak.com)
363 points by hn_acker | 97 comments
TorrentFreak article on a study finding that students, including Chinese postgraduates, use Z-Library to overcome expensive books and limited access to academic material.
The art of high performance computing(theartofhpc.com)
566 points by rramadass | 97 comments
Landing page for The Art of HPC, a series of free textbooks on high performance computing by Victor Eijkhout of TACC.
The Art of Electronics (2015)(artofelectronics.net)
369 points by teleforce | 96 comments
Official website for The Art of Electronics, the electronics textbook by Horowitz and Hill, with book info, reviews, updates, and supplementary chapters.
So you want to learn physics (2021)(susanrigetti.com)
468 points by weird_science | 150 comments
Susan Rigetti's second-edition guide (2021) to self-studying physics, outlining a curriculum of textbooks and topics for learning physics on your own.