Top products from r/humblebundles

Tier $1

• Typography for the People: Hand-Painted Signs from Around the World Plus 15 Free Fonts
  
• Cultivating Creativity: Daily Rituals for Visual Inspiration
  
• The Designer's Web Handbook: What You Need to Know to Create for the Web
  
• The Web Designer's Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends Styles In Website Design
  
• The Designer's Guide to Business and Careers: How to Succeed on the Job or on Your Own
  
• Show Me, Don't Tell Me: Visualizing Communication Strategy
  
• Nimble: Thinking Creatively in the Digital Age
  
• Caffeine for the Creative Team: 200 Exercises to Inspire Group Innovation
  
• Culture+Typography: How Culture Affects Typography
  
  Tier $8
  
  
• Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design
  
• The Creative Professional's Guide to Money: How to Think About It, How to Talk About it, How to Manage It
  
• Creative Grab Bag: Inspiring Challenges for Artists, Illustrators and Designers
  
• Mail Me Art: Going Postal with the World's Best Illustrators and Designers
  
• The Strategic Designer: Tools Techniques for Managing the Design Process
  
• The Physics of Brand: Understand the Forces Behind Brands That Matter
  
• Build Your Own Brand: Strategies, Prompts and Exercises for Marketing Yourself
  
• Building Better Brands: A Comprehensive Guide to Brand Strategy and Identity Development
  
• The Web Designer's Idea Book Volume 2: More of the Best Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design
  
• Above the Fold, Revised Edition
  
• Success By Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers
  
• Just Design: Socially Conscious Design for Critical Causes
  
  Tier $15
  
  
• Breaking Into Freelance Illustration: A Guide for Artists, Designers and Illustrators
  
• The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising's Big Ideas Are Born
  
• IdeaSelling: Successfully Pitch Your Creative Ideas to Bosses, Clients other Decision Makers
  
• Identify: Basic Principles of Identity Design in the Iconic Trademarks of Chermayeff Geismar
  
• Mirko Ilic: Fist to Face
  
• Web Designer's Idea Book, Volume 4: Inspiration from the Best Web Design Trends, Themes and Styles
  
• Self Portrait as Your Traitor
  
• The Web Designer's Idea Book, Volume 3: Inspiration from Today's Best Web Design Trends, Themes and Styles
  
• The Design Activist's Handbook: How to Change the World (Or at Least Your Part of It) with Socially Conscious Design
  
• Breakthrough Thinking: A Guide to Creative Thinking and Idea Generation
  
• The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations
  
• Mastering Type: The Essential Guide to Typography for Print and Web Design
  
• Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills

Ok, it's a bunch of ebooks, usually in these bundles you get about 15 of them and the bundles cost $15 so $1 each.
If it's stuff like comic books it's usually around 40 items for a normal price for those are like $4-8 each, in the case of books for the more fiction style of books maybe the normal price is usually like $10-20 each, in this case it was 20-25 books so I guess the normal price is $15-20 each and in the case of stuff like the OReilly books the normal price per book is more like $30 and such, in like the Unity asset packs some of those things have a normal price of $50 and so on.

So like for $1:
https://www.amazon.com/Greek-Mythology-Explained-Legends-Goddesses/dp/1633538966 Kindle $12.49
https://www.amazon.com/How-Art-Can-Make-Happy/dp/1452153221 Kindle $9.99
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Why-How-Illustrate-Mysteries/dp/1452108226 Kindle $12.09
https://www.amazon.com/Underachievers-Manifesto-Accomplishing-Little-Feeling/dp/0811853683 Kindle $6.24
https://www.amazon.com/Crap-Dates-Disastrous-Encounters-Single/dp/1452114587 Kindle $4.99
https://www.amazon.com/K-Knifeball-Alphabet-Terrible-Advice/dp/1452103313 Kindle $6.00

I totally don't think ebooks are worth as much as physical books. A physical book takes much more distribution and work to generate and have a much nicer quality and accessibility though it do take up space. So in general I wouldn't buy ebooks at those prices but that's about $61.50 on Amazon to get those ebooks which Humble Bundle charged $1 for.

Here in Sweden were I live education is gratis and you even get a small amount of money to help get by for up to six years of university studies. Then again our taxes are very close to half of GDP and on work income the total taxation is about 3/4 of the income when you've paid all taxes including stuff like VAT and energy and so on. Our system allow people to get pretty useless degrees and our flat salaries and the political ideology make people demand a higher salary just because they have spent equal number of years at university or equal hours at the job not because what they produce was in demand and deserved that payment. So that's a bad system in that it doesn't produce what the market value and lower the production of usable goods and services and waste resources vs something more efficient but it could be solved by offering poor people a loan which they pay back once they have gotten a better job or whatever instead of just not educating them at all.
As an Indian or American citizen rather than a Swedish one a university degree would had cost money here too though. And the school you went to would unlikely had the same reputation as the finest American ones and not necessarily held the same quality. But for those living here their education is paid for by others taxes (which is about twice as large share of the GDP as in America.)

Maybe this table can help some of you to gauge how worth the bundle is.

| | | Amazon | | | Goodreads | |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------|---------|--------------|-----------|--------------|
| Tier | Title | Kindle Price ($) | Average | # of Ratings | Average | # of Ratings |
| 1 | Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You | 25.99 | 3.9 | 20 | 4.05 | 40 |
| 1 | Presenting Data: How to Communicate Your Message Effectively | 26.99 | 2.9 | 4 | 4.25 | 8 |
| 1 | Stories that Move Mountains: Storytelling and Visual Design for Persuasive Presentations | - | 4.0 | 13 | 3.84 | 56 |
| 1 | Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals (Excerpt) | 25.99 | 4.6 | 281 | 4.37 | 1175 |
| 2 | 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization | 22.99 | 4.2 | 70 | 3.98 | 390 |
| 2 | Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design | 25.99 | 4.3 | 39 | 3.90 | 173 |
| 2 | The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions | 31.71 | 3.8 | 43 | 3.03 | 35 |
| 2 | Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics | 25.99 | 3.9 | 83 | 3.88 | 988 |
| 3 | Data Points: Visualization That Means Something | 25.99 | 3.9 | 34 | 3.87 | 362 |
| 3 | Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling | 19.99 | 4.0 | 38 | 3.79 | 221 |
| 3 | Graph Analysis and Visualization: Discovering Business Opportunity in Linked Data | 40.99 | 4.2 | 3 | 3.59 | 14 |
| 3 | Tableau Your Data!: Fast and Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software, 2nd Edition | 39.99 | 4.0 | 66 | 4.14 | 111 |
| 3 | Visualizing Financial Data | 36.99 | 4.7 | 4 | 3.83 | 6 |

Nothing particularly good in this bundle.

If you want take up cooking and treat yourself, I would give my highest personal recommendation to The Food Lab and Bravetart. They are great because they go over technique and fundamentals and provide a good base that you can build from once you get more comfortable in the kitchen. Once you hit that point The Flavor Bible is also a great resource for experimentation.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Python-Example-Nichola-Lacey/dp/1108716830

Easy to return is you feel it's too basic.

​

https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-python-for-data-science

2 former coworkers gained good working knowledge with this one, they were able to support the company's Python processes in about 2 weeks of learning. Works well even if you can only afford the time to go through 1-2 small chapters every day. Should be able to get a 2 months trial via the benefits of https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/dev-essentials/ (free to register).

The last Willey "for dummies" series I got was the how to land an IT job one and most of them were easy to read and had some decent pointers. That being said I'm always skeptical on getting stock market books. I own The intelligent investor and also have listened to Money Management Skills on the great courses audible series and I can say that phrase I keep hearing the most is that "you can't beat the market".

The average person who goes on etrade or Robin hood doesn't have the same resources as those higher up do with computers that can process hundreds of trades in the blink of an eye or potential insider sources . We also get emotional over stocks and find it hard to disassociate ourselves from our losses and boast about our gains. Getting someone else to manage your portfolio is also costly and you can most likely get better gains as long as you diversify your stocks in a mutual index fund. That's just a bit of what I learned and I suggest getting those 2 books/audiobooks that I recommend. I still believe the dummies books will be good, but from what I read, you'll have much more stress trying to maximize gains individually actively rather than take a backseat in a well diversified portfolio

I'm not sure where you're finding them for that price, but Amazon has Warbreaker on MP3 CD for $9.24 and Elantris on MP3 CD for $12.11. The Hope of Elantris is a short story, and it doesn't seem to be available anywhere but the author's website, where it is only offered as text, for free, in its entirety.

I can't imagine what made HB decide to be the only place that chops up these audiobooks and sells bits and pieces.

What about Vintage Games 2.0, and Vintage Game Consoles? Are these books worth reading due to the discount? I love learning about games and game consoles.

The reviews for both pretty good (same author in involved in both), sounds like a book that isn't a waste of money like the rest. Not perfect, but good enough for $1 for 1 or 2 for $8.

https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Games-2-0-Insider-Influential/dp/1138899135

https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Game-Consoles-Commodore-Platforms/dp/0415856000

TEAMGROUP T-Force Xcalibur RGB DDR4 16GB (2x8GB) 4000MHz (PC4-32000) CL18 Desktop Memory Module ram TF6D416G4000HC18EDC01 - Special Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G27W7G4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_uy-ODb0PE7R0G

Monetizing Innovation.
The Art of Startup Fundraising.
Starting a Tech Business.
The Startup Checklist.

I think you know where I'm going with this now.