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## Intro
This list was originally a clone of [stackoverflow - List of Freely Available Programming Books](http://web.archive.org/web/20130824154208/http://stackoverflow.com/a/392926)by George Stocker.
This list was originally a clone of [stackoverflow - List of Freely Available Programming Books](http://web.archive.org/web/20130824154208/http://stackoverflow.com/a/392926)with contributions from Karan Bhangui and George Stocker.
The list was moved to GitHub by Victor Felder for collaborative updating and maintenance. It grew to become one of the [most popular repositories on Github](https://octoverse.github.com/), with over 80,000 stars, over 4000 commits, over 800 contributors, and over 20,000 forks.
The list was moved to GitHub by Victor Felder for collaborative updating and maintenance. It has grown to become one of the [most popular repositories on Github](https://octoverse.github.com/), with over 97,000 stars, over 4500 commits, over 950 contributors, and over 24,000 forks.
The repo is now administered by the [Free Ebook Foundation](https://ebookfoundation.org), a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting the creation, distribution, archiving and sustainability of free ebooks. [Donations](https://ebookfoundation.org/contributions.html) to the Free Ebook Foundation are tax-deductible in the US.
