This is the best-kept secret. If you have a .edu email address, the GitHub Student Developer Pack gives you free access to O’Reilly Online Learning (often for 6 months). O’Reilly’s library includes Java: The Complete Reference, 13th Edition in full DRM-free-ish PDF. This is a legal GitHub-adjacent solution.
Occasionally, you will find a repository with the actual 50MB+ PDF. This is copyright infringement. McGraw-Hill, the publisher, holds exclusive rights. When you download it, you are pirating intellectual property. GitHub will eventually issue a DMCA takedown, and the repository will disappear. This is the best-kept secret
GitHub itself offers a massive bundle of free resources to students, including access to technical eBooks. While you won’t get Schildt’s book directly, you get free access to O’Reilly Safari Online (via the GitHub Student Developer Pack). O’Reilly’s library includes Java: The Complete Reference, 13th Edition in full PDF and online reader format. This gives you the clean, searchable, complete PDF
How to do it:
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This gives you the clean, searchable, complete PDF that works without the guilt or malware risk.
GitHub regularly scrubs repositories that violate copyright. So, most links you find are abandoned. You’ll download a 100kb file that is actually just a text file saying “Contact me on Telegram for the real PDF” (which is a scam or malware bait).