I’m super-pumped to have my first DIY book—Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred: Seriously Geeky Stuff to Make with Your Kids—included in this Humble Bundle.
A QUICK INTO TO HUMBLE BUNDLES: Humble Bundles are collections of multi-format, DRM-free digital content (in this case ebooks) offered on a pay-what-you-want basis. When you purchase a bundle, you get to choose how much you pay and how that payment is divided between the content creator and several charities (in this case the EFF and the Freedom of the Press Foundation). If you pay more than average, you unlock bonus content.
The “Core Bundle”—available to anyone who pays any amount—includes:
Folks who pay above the prevailing average also get:
And big-spenders who break $14.99 (which, incidentally, is basically the price for any *one* of these books) get even more:
That’s 13 books–no less than $130 retail if you go with commodity ebook formats, and more like $250 for the high-end, ultra-crisp DRM-free PDFs No Starch sells directly. This is an insanely good deal. Even if you just chip in a couple bucks for the Core Bundle, you’re getting some great books. The Manga guides are tons of fun, and both my kids (8yo boy and 2yo girl) love the LEGO Adventure Books (which are *soooo* slick and beautiful on an iPad). I gave my son a print copy of Lauren Ipsum for Xanukah, and he read it three times in two days, then got out his old copy of Phantom Tollbooth to re-read, then started reading them in some crazy cross-referenced tandem system of his own devising.
CHECK IT OUT: Humble Brainiac Book Bundle Presented by No Starch Press (pay what you want and help charity)