Don’t know if anybody else noticed, but the first batch of Leonard Read books that have been converted to ebook have finally been released by LvMI. Kind of disappointing that they couldn’t get some unique cover artwork for each of the books, but at least they got them out there. They are sorely needed.
Slightly better link:
Great, which book is his seminal work, or should one read first?
All of the Leonard Read EPUBs should be posted over the coming week/s, they are just awaiting eISBNs/covers. I have them all up on my site if you are impatient:
http://misesbooks.blogspot.com
All of these books will be posted:
Read,Leonard.E.-.Accent.On.The.Right.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Awake.For.Freedom’s.Sake.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Castles.In.The.Air.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Comes.The.Dawn.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Deeper.Than.You.Think.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Having.My.Way.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.How.Do.We.Know.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Let.Freedom.Reign.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Liberty.-.Legacy.of.Truth.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Seeds.of.Progress.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Students.of.Liberty.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Talking.To.Myself.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.The.Coming.Aristocracy.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.The.Free.Market.And.Its.Enemy.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.The.Freedom.Freeway.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.The.Love.of.Liberty.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.The.Path.of.Duty.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Then.Truth.Will.Out.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.To.Free.Or.Freeze.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Vision.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Who’s.Listening.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Why.Not.Try.Freedom.epub
These will not be posted (but are on my site):
Read,Leonard.E.-.Government.-.An.Ideal.Concept.epub
Read,Leonard.E.-.Pattern.For.Revolt
Read,Leonard.E.-.Romance.of.Reality
As a side note, the covers of the 01/10/13 EPUBs were accidentally added in wrongly. There will be fixed EPUBs being updated this some time this week (correct versions can always be grabbed from my site).
Got a nice fancy cover for Castles In The Air though. It was probably because I submitted all of these Leonard Read EPUBs in one huge batch instead of one by one as usual. Usually my pace is ~1 book a week, but these books converted very quickly (because they were short, and had great scans). ![]()
Any other EPUBs you would like to see? As of right now, I mostly just pick and choose (somewhat randomly). If anyone has recommendations I try to move those to the top of the list.
Do you have anything by Schumpeter?
Well these are the two PDFs of his books on Mises (without EPUBs):
https://www.mises.org/document/3063/Economic-Doctrine-and-Method-An-Historical-Sketch
Schumpeter,Joseph.-.Ten.Great.Economists.-.From.Marx.To.Keynes (can’t find a link for this, but I have the PDF sitting on my hard drive)
And this little 8 page PDF:
https://www.mises.org/document/3862/Methodological-Individualism
The two books look to be dense, with lots of footnotes (footnotes REALLY slow down the conversion). The scans themselves look clean, so it should not be too bad. It might take perhaps two weeks each, but I will be sure to move them up towards the top of my list.
Anything That’s Peaceful: The Case for the Free Market is a collection of his writings which includes the famous “I, Pencil”
Thank you for all of your hard work!
Do you take modest requests?
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Debt: Private and Public, Good and Bad
The Principles of Economics, With Applications to Practical Problems
The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 1: The Major Works
The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 2: Shorter Essays
Capital, Expectations, and the Market Process
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
Effects of the War on the Money, Banking, Credit System of the United States
Awesome. What about Capitalism Socialism and Democracy or History of Economic Analysis? I have the notes for those but the formatting isn’t too great.
Ah yes, “I, Pencil” that is a classic.
I am mostly focusing on works which are hosted in the Mises Literature section. I can’t seem to find those two books, although I may be missing something. If not, if you point me to the best PDF version you can find, I can ask around and see if there is a reason it is not being hosted on the site. I would not mind tossing those two books on the backburner if it won’t delay my other projects too much.
Also, according to Wikipedia, Leonard Read has written these works. I am on the hunt for these, and I cannot find them anywhere:
I’d Push the Button (New York: Joseph D. McGuire, 1946)
Outlook for Freedom (FEE, 1951)
Where Lies This Fault? (FEE, 1967)
Instead of Violence (FEE, 1973)
Free Man’s Almanac (FEE, 1974)
Thoughts Rule the World (FEE, 1981)
Tex2002ans, thank you VERY much for doing this awesome work!
Capitalism,Socialism,and Democracy
A few more,if you get the time:
A Treatise on Political Economy
thanks
I made a nice post full of books and the links to those books, and the forum software flagged it for moderator approval…we can see how that’s gone. Maybe one day they’ll approve it and you can see what I actually put (thanks mods!), but until then here’s a much more brief list:
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Elementary Lessons in Logic
Confessions of a Capitalist
The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 1: The Major Works
The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 2: Shorter Essays
The Social and Political Philosophy of Adam Ferguson: A Commentary on his Essay on the History of Civil Society
The Counter-Revolution of Science
Thank you. It is quite a “thankless” job though. There are not many comments either positive or negative, and it is great knowing that there are at least SOME people who appreciate the EPUBs. When I see topics such as this, it really puts a huge boost in my morale.
Converting these books into EPUB means they can be comfortably read in whatever the user feels is more preferable, and can also be easily changed into any future formats which crop up (PDF is just about THE WORST format). This will indirectly help spread the ideas more than before, and will allow them to continue to be read any place on any device until time immemorial!
I am just doing my part to make it easier for everyone to read the great works.
Hmmm… seems like these two PDFs seem to have been built from a digital source already. Plus, these two editions are newer and will most likely be mired in some copyright.
I feel like my time is better spent on books which have never seen the light of HTML/EPUB/MOBI/non-PDF.
I will put these on the far end of the list though. Maybe there might be a quicker way I can just strip the text right out of them.
I started work on this one in April 2011 (one of the first ones I tried to create), and it was way out of my league. I haven’t looked back at it since then, but I assume I will have to scratch most of my work and start over. This one will most likely take weeks of work.
I started this one in November 2011, but got overwhelemed.
I will have to take another look at this one + Pure Theory of Capital. My skills have gotten much better since then.
I know that game. A few of my “Book Typo” posts get flagged because I post lots of links to the Wiki. I think the limit might be around 5 or 6 links. As long as I get the name of the book + author, that should be fine, I would only need links to works off of the Mises Literature section.
I already have every PDF book downloaded/sorted on my hard drive so I can find them easily.
I finished this one June 2012, I guess I forgot to put it up on my site. I just did a few more quick tweaks right now, but it is definitely not up to my standards nowadays (although it is already vastly superior to any other copy you will find online… because there is none). ![]()
http://misesbooks.blogspot.com/2012/06/perpetual-war-for-perpetual-peace-by.html
I will begin work on these soon.
Mind giving me a link to this one?
What about Planning for Freedom? Could you do that one?
Completed it just now:
http://misesbooks.blogspot.com/2013/01/planning-for-freedom-by-ludwig-von-mises.html
Wow,thanks! I’ve been wanting to read this one for quite some time now.
It looks like my post was finally approved, so if you scroll up you’ll see my “wish list”. Thank you again for all of your hard work.
I might be able to do you one better, as I was already in the process of converting it from a PDF to a Word document anyway (done with the book itself, converting the footnotes). I got it from here, and although not a LvMI book it is one of the more highly discussed books by Hayek in LvMI circles and would definitely be a good addition.
Wow,thanks! I’ve been wanting to read this one for quite some time now.
You are very welcome. I submitted it to Mises, although they have quite a large backlog of all my other stuff, so it might be a while until it is officially put up (IF there are no copyright troubles).
It looks like my post was finally approved, so if you scroll up you’ll see my “wish list”. Thank you again for all of your hard work.
Yes, I noticed that too. What do you want me to do… every PDF that ever existed? ![]()
I might be able to do you one better, as I was already in the process of converting it from a PDF to a Word document anyway (done with the book itself, converting the footnotes). I got it from here, and although not a LvMI book it is one of the more highly discussed books by Hayek in LvMI circles and would definitely be a good addition.
Are you telling me you already have a Word document that is corrected from typos (or that you just copied/pasted, or used some sort of converter, or built off of the Internet Archive’s auto generated stuff)? Does it have all the proper unicode characters in there too? I know that Hayek likes to use a lot of greek symbols (which are a pain in the butt to hunt down one by one).
Going from ANYTHING BESIDES PDF → EPUB is a million times easier than going from PDF → EPUB… but only if the ANYTHING is not some auto generated junk full of mistakes. ![]()