All typos that I know of I have corrected, yes, I’ve even tried to preserve some of the original words (e.g., rôle instead of role). I have used proper Unicode chars to the best of my ability, and tried to use the original spacings and italics as used in the book. Greek symbols weren’t as hard as they look, although one important sentence in Greek I couldn’t find all of the characters for (but luckily it was footnoted so I just used the English translation of it).
As soon as I finish up with it I’ll upload it somewhere where you can get it if you’d like to have it.
This is the other site that I use for finding any character. I love this site because if I run into a character, I can copy/paste it into the box, and it will tell me exactly what it is. In this case, I used it to find out an acute was being used instead of an apostrophe:
In the box you can also type anything, and it will search every unicode character for anything that matches. I typed in “greek” and this is what it gets:
That site is also great because I can see every unicode character possible, even all the greek symbols with all the crazy accents on them. Then I just find the one that matches and copy/paste it.
Great, yes I would like to have it. Then I can convert it and run some comparisons, to try to catch even more typos/corrections.
I also cleaned up a lot of the markings in the PDF. If anyone is interested in reading the cleaned PDF version, just let me know, and I can generate it and upload it. (No idea why you would want to read that inferior format though!)
You are very welcome. Were you delaying your reading until an EPUB got created? Or are you just so bogged down with so many other great books that that one was on the backlog?
I have fallen WAY behind on my reading of Human Action… I am going through very thoroughly and cleaning up every last typo (hundreds of fixes so far). Last time I fixed a typo was September 21st, 2012… I maybe read 10 pages since then:
Now the rest of these books will be slow going. It looks like they are longer, the text will not OCR as well, and some of these have some serious markings which will take time to clean.
Is the LvMI cheaping out on their press productions? They have a PRINT TO ORDER section of their catalog, but they won’t sell the JB Say books that they used to have. They don’t have as many Liberty Fund books, Schumpeter’s C,S,& D isn’t available anymore, Mencken is gone, those silver rounds are wildly overpriced, etc.
They aren’t in fincancial trouble are they? That’d be pretty…embarrassing.
I finished reading MES back in 5/1/2012 (whenever I actually read the books I do very in depth typo corrections). Here is the fixed version on my site:
You are welcome, let me know if you find any mistakes, and I can fix them up right away.
I will take a look at them and most likely add them to the list.
As a side note, it looks like the EPUB of Libertarian Forum finally got posted. What would you rather have, 173.25 MBs of PDFs? Or 3.94 MBs of amazing EPUB.
I spent TONS of hours fixing typos, and tweaking lots of things in that one (I would estimate at least ~8000 fixes (that is how many LINES of code I tweaked, there could have been multiple tweaks per line))… Let it be known that those who use BOLD everywhere to emphasize words in a publication must die a thousand deaths!
I asked, and was told that those physical books sold extremely poorly. The Institute was losing money on each of those books, so they have been removed.
You are welcome again, but you will only become my favorite if you recommend a book to EPUB.
It would be a better use of my time to go from $16.99 MOBI → EPUB (few hours of work), than to work backwards from the PDF (potentially tens of hours, errors introduced in the process).
Hey,I found Say’s “Letters to Mr.Malthus” and “Treatise on Political Economy” on libertyfund, so you don’t have to do those ones (I think I requested them earlier).
I’ve actually been able to converse with Levine through email, and he was quite accomodating. I’d definitely reach out to him. You’re doing great work with all this. I think he’d be enthusiastic to help in any way he can, especially in support of his own work.
