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Data for 📚 mustread.tech – open-source and crowd-sourced book listing.

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Contribution guidelines

Let's build the best technical book listing together! ❤️

What books are (not) welcome

✅ Timeless, fundamentals books (e.g. Clean Code)

✅ Books with Goodreads rating > 3.8

❌ Books on narrowly focused technology (Java Persistence with MyBatis, A Beginner's Guide to the Meteor Framework...)

❌ Great, but unrelated books (e.g. Atlas Shrugged, Sapiens)

How to contribute a book

  1. Copy the following book template:
---
book:  
  # 13-digit ISBN of a book
  isbn: '1234567891234'
  
  # Book tags. Two is maximum, one is better.
  # To avoid tag chaos, please:
  # 1) Use existing tags or raise an issue if the needed tag is missing.
  # 2) Don't use coding, testing and other general tags with platform/language specific books.
  tags:
    - management

  # (optional) Your Twitter handle
  kudo: eduardsi

  # (optional) Book description that will override the automatically fetched description
  about: |
    Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. 
    ... 
  1. Create a new file under /books/<Book Title.yml>
  2. Paste the book template
  3. Populate the book template with correct data
  4. Commit, push 🚀

FAQ

How do I find ISBN?

  1. Visit Goodreads
  2. Find the book by name or book's author
  3. See book's ISBN13

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