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What about the free ones like Dive into python, LPTHW and others. People won't buy as much as the non free ones so the ratings may not be as accurate.

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Good point. I bump the ranks of the free books slightly to adjust for that. Similarly, for books that have multiple editions, I make some adjustments to avoid penalizing these books for fragmentation.

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