Updated books #557
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I noticed the books section could be expanded with a lot more entries, do you think it'd be worthwhile to do so? Are there any kind of criteria you think there should be, like mostly available to read freely online (would exclude Common Lisp Recipes), or one book per author (so having to pick between keeping PG's On Lisp vs. his more complete ANSI Common Lisp), or only English (ruling out linking to the Japanese Survival Common Lisp), or mostly about introducing Lisp the language (so not more subject-specific books like phoe's on the condition system or Land of Lisp or a handful of others on webdev/calendars/AI/...)?
I kind of like the self-promotion going on with the udemy course, I'm wondering if it'd be good to use the cookbook home page to further promote book authors. A lot of Lisp books not linked are easy enough to find, but a lot aren't, e.g. I don't think many people have noticed or read something like the very focused Common Lisp in the Wild - Deploying Common Lisp Applications ebook, but I quite enjoyed it. We once briefly talked about something similar though on how there's a line between linking to too much (like blog posts and perhaps small ebooks like that one) when that content could better just be in the cookbook directly. A possible cookbook addition might be a page with code usage notes or notes on how "dated" sections of particular books are. For example, with Land of Lisp, which isn't linked either, I could write a few notes on running some of the examples in a modern SBCL. Or with that mentioned ebook, it uses Buildapp, which is fine though as the cookbook briefly notes not necessarily the best option anymore.
(Additionally, what initially spawned thinking about this issue, I noticed and was going to fix a deadlink for Successful Lisp. A functioning one is hosted by strandh...)