Hey. I'm the developer behind the site. You could submit those if you'd like. That's where the "community" bit comes in :)

Feat suggestion: would be nice if you allowed for a TOC to be attached to book description, to ease a quick glance over the contents. Occurred to me when browsing http://hackershelf.com/book/344/speeding-through-haskell/ - as the target link has no TOC, if someone took care to provide a TOC on the Shelf, I'd know better what to expect.

After more browsing, the topics list at http://hackershelf.com/topics/ looks like it could take some more care: probably case insenitiveness, maybe fix the strange duplication of letter topics (or does it have some hidden purpose?), maybe put a list of quicklinks to letter-sections on top.

Just some feedback from a random Internet guy ;) the site does a very good first impression!

Thanks :) The TOC sounds like a great idea, obvious in hindsight. The case sensitivity of the topics is just a reflection of my laziness, I should have taken care of that a long time ago. Hope you keep finding the site useful.

The curation here is pretty poor. Most of the books are not free and many have nothing to do with programming (or even technology in general!)[0]

[0] http://hackershelf.com/book/386/the-god-delusion/

It's not, and has never been, purely for technical books. The non-free submissions always happen when the site goes viral every few months, which is inevitable with any crowdsourced collection. Already working on removing those. You can flag a submission that goes against the guidelines. Thanks for the pointers.

Any way to import?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...