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I don’t “expect” the authors to do anything. But I am not going to spend many hours of my time reading a book when I see that the book is not maintained because there are many great books on my backlog that ARE being maintained by the authors/community.



All of my books are in pdf and receive zero maintenance - many of them are still incredibly useful.


I did not make a blank statement about the usefulness of outdated books. But certain topics do get out of date pretty quickly and would be less valuable to a maintained book.




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