Showing posts with label Accepted. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Accepted. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Give Me Liberty by Rose Wilder Lane

Status: Accepted on Mises.org (03.06.2013)

Thank you to myhumangetsme for requesting this EPUB on the Mises Forums.

eISBN: 978-1-61016-597-6

Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/7017/Give-Me-Liberty

Fix Notes:


Intro: socialist (Thank you Bill Starr)

This was the first candid, personal account of the changing of an American’s mind, from an uncritical acceptance of solialist-communist—New-Deal philosophy to an understanding of American values.

Page 5: referendum

In the United States, for example, Liberals gained equal suffrage, popular election of nearly all public officials, initiative, refedendum, recall, and the primaries.

Page 5: tyranny:

But now, we confront economic tryanny.

Page 19: Accidental '.' instead of ',' (?)

No employer had stamped them during the past three days. men and women were loaded into the patrol wagon.

Page 22: efficient

If he had let Frenchmen waste and quarrel, and cheat and lose, as Americans were then doing in equally primitive markets, French department stores certainly would not have been made as briskly effi-cent and time-saving as America’s.

Page 25: Appalachians

Nevertheless, before tea went overboard in Boston harbor the lawless settlers had penetrated to the crests and valleys of the Applachians and were scouting into forbidden lands beyond.

Page 27: transfer

How is it possible to tranfer the power of the ruler to each man in this multitude?

Page 32: catastrophes

Each of them, amid the uncertainties, dangers, risks, opportunities and catastrophies of a free society, has been creating his own life and his own status as best he could.

Page 43: percentage

I read also that a hundred years ago 80 per cent of our population owned property and that today the percentge is 23.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Let Freedom Reign by Leonard E. Read

Status: Accepted onto Mises (01.11.13)

Update (01/11/13) (v.3): Officially posted on Mises Literature section

Original SBN 91064-22-9
eISBN: 978-1-61016-572-3

Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/7008/Let-Freedom-Reign-Digital-Book

Fix Notes:


The Author And Publisher:

"¿Por Que No Ensayar la Libertad" is missing the question mark at the end

Page 75: adequate

[...] before I can pursue my bent or aptitude or obsession, I must gain an adquate, voluntary approval or assent!

Page 125-126: Footnote number errors

Footnotes should be +1.

PDF Error:


Metadata title is "Let Freedom Ring"

How Do We Know by Leonard E. Read

Status: Accepted onto Mises (01.11.13)

Update (01/11/13) (v.5): Officially posted on Mises Literature section

Original ISBN: 0-910614-68-7
eISBN: 978-1-61016-575-4

Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/7011/How-Do-We-Know-Digital-Book

Fix Notes:


Page 25: Left Single quote should be changed to Right single quote

‘Tis a megalomania:

Page 97: The right ] in after "left" is accidentally italic

That ye resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other [left] also.”

Page 111: unnecessary

So, to avoid unncessary repetition, I shall quote what others have had to say about low ambitions.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Having My Way by Leonard E. Read

Status: Accepted onto Mises (01.11.13)

Update (01/11/13) (v.3): Officially posted on Mises Literature section

Original (paper) ISBN-0-910614-50-4
Original (cloth) ISBN-0-910614-49-0
eISBN: 978-1-61016-573-0

Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/7010/Having-My-Way-Digital-Book

Fix Notes:


Page 38: Left Quotation needed

‘What? You expect me to give up the practices that are keeping me in business or in office?”

Page 41: Missing space

[...] attack, fight, flaunt our superiority—for time is of the essence!This is the activist approach.

Page 51: constituents

Confess this mistake to his constitutents?

Monday, October 15, 2012

Deeper Than You Think by Leonard E. Read

Status: Accepted onto Mises (01.11.13)

Update (01/11/13) (v.4): Officially posted on Mises Literature section

eISBN: 978-1-61016-576-1

Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/7014/Deeper-Than-You-Think-Digital-Book

Fix Notes:


Page 98: fulfill

What a field for the would-be philanthropist if all these wants were within his power to fufill!

Index. "Ortega y Gasset, Jose" is missing the 'é'

NOTES


Should the Chapter titles alternate between alignments? Left, Right, Left, Right? Currently the chapter titles alternate arbitrarily (?):

R, L, R, L, R, R, L, R, L, L, L, R, R, L, R, L, R, L

Comes The Dawn by Leonard E. Read

Status: Accepted onto Mises (01.11.13)

Update (01/11/13) (v.3): Officially posted on Mises Literature section

Original ISBN: 0-910614-57-1
eISBN: 978-1-61016-574-7

Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/7009/Comes-The-Dawn-Digital-Book

Fix Notes:


Other books missing indent on "¿Por Que No Ensayar la Libertad?"

Page 19: according

Indeed, unless they act acording to the word, they will continue digging ever deeper into the pocketbooks of their children [...]

Page 36: Changed '.' to ','

On the other hand. there is a small but growing minority of persons who are becoming more skilled, articulate, and ardent devotees of socialism’s opposite: [...]

Page 37: government

In the decades that followed, citizens did not turn to government for succor, for goverment was so limited that it had nothing on hand to dispense, nor did it then have the power to take from some and give to others.

Page 43: governments

No one can possibly name all the commandeering by our thousands of goverments.

Page 54: Left Single Quote changed to Right Single Quote (to match the rest of the book)

‘Tis a momentary idolatry, doubtless inspired by novel phrasings of his own ideas which excite him.

Page 60: politicians

Then, to implement their degraded schemes—political nightmares—those politicans cultivate an enormous bureaucracy of a like-minded ilk.

Page 88: Robinson (?) (Unchanged)

A Robinsoe Crusoe, of course, has no one to steal from.

Page 97: Broken left quotation mark

[...] with animal fats to make possible a ‘’simple” pencil?

Page 104: nazism (?) (Unchanged)

The latter has numerous contemporary labels: communism, Fabianism, fascism, naziism, and so on.

Page 139: Missing em dash '—' before Matthew

Friday, October 12, 2012

Accent on the Right by Leonard E. Read

Status: Accepted onto Mises.org (01.11.13)

Update (10/24/12) (v.6): Shaved 16 KBs by using different compression on an image.
Update (01/11/13) (v.7): Officially posted on Mises Literature section

eISBN: 978-1-61016-577-8

Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/7012/Accent-On-The-Right-Digital-Book

Fix Notes:


Page 42:

Blockquote problem. "The delivery of first-class mail for pay;" is the end of the list. The next paragraph I believe should have been treated like the rest of the paragraphs within the book (and have a margin between the bottom of the list and the paragraph).

Page 70: millionaires

[...] thus, most of us would not have survived—not even our current millionaries.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Awake For Freedom's Sake by Leonard E. Read

Status: Accepted onto Mises (01.11.13)

Update (10/24/12) (v.4): Shaved ~3 KBs by using different compression on the image.
Update (01/11/13) (v.5): Officially posted on Mises Literature section

Original ISBN: 0-910614-58-X
eISBN: 978-1-61016-578-5

Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/7013/Awake-For-Freedoms-Sake-Digital-Book

Fix Notes:


OTHER BOOKS By Leonard E. Read:

Missing indent on "¿Por Que No Ensayar la Libertad?"

Page 10: Missing '—' before "C. F. KETTERING"

Page 80: effectively

He perceives opportunities to employ scarce resources to serve consumers more efficiently and effectivly than otherwise would be the case

Page 108: Accidental missplaced comma

Just about the hardest sell in all history ,so far as I know, was undertaken by Medieval “Christians,” namely, the Crusades that went on for the better part of two centuries.

Page 114: accidental '-'

“Why, Mr. Saint Peter, I had the reputation of being an honest man. What do you mean I stole money from-widows and orphans.”

Page 157: Missing space before quotation.

So, forever listen! Wisdom may come, as the Bible suggests,“from out the mouths of babes.”

Page 162: liberty

The very first step in knowing how to use our iberty is self-government.

EPUB ONLY:



Removed Title Page (redundant), moved some of the FEE information to the Copyright Page (in this book, titled "The Author And Publisher").

Centered some of the copyright information.

Page 67 (and a few others I didn't mark):

Changed the authors who were quoted to the right to make the entire book match.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Ouroboros or the Mechanical Extension of Mankind by Garet Garrett

Status: Accepted onto Mises (11.06.13)

Update (10/25/2012): New Cover and eISBN.

eISBN: 9781610165709

Cover: Dead Mediafire Link. If anyone wants the original high quality cover, please leave a comment.
Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/3542/Ouroboros-or-the-Mechanical-Extension-of-Mankind

Fix Notes:


Page 16: formerly

Silks, watches, ornaments, shoes like those of queens and ladies, plated ware, upholstered furniture, soft beds, besides things that were formely non-existent and therefore beyond the reach of kings, sultans and nabobs, such as electric lights, [...]

Page 20: Or

[...] wonderful than the silkworm similarly converting the mulberry leaf in precious quantities? or a steel ship more amazing than a whale? What of the mechanical beast with a colorless fluid in its tail and a flame in its nose [...]

Page 29: terrific

As you may know, the industrial equipment of the world is increasing by teriffic momentum.

Page 30: protocols

Yet they are but protcols of truce.

Page 34: industrial

Competition among industiral nations to exploit one another’s internal markets is but one profile of all that dangerous activity taking place in the name of foreign trade.

Page 39: install

The makers of fifty-dollar watches throw away their old machines, instal new ones, increase their production, reduce their costs, and not only make what was a fifty-dollar watch for twenty-five but contribute also, in a competitive manner, to the supply of ten-dollar watches.

Page 60: abhorring

[...] was the protagonist of free trade, abhoring tariffs, because she was paramount in machine craft and could beat her rivals both in their own markets and in her own.

Page 69: uncontrollable

Beginning about 1870 there was a sudden and uncontrol-able increase in the output of industry from two principal causes.

Page 80: became

It becames vital by extension—that is to say, when in the course of time the industrial population has increased beyond the native food supply.

Page 85: machine craft (to match its usage in the rest of the book)

So long as three or four nations had a monopoly of machines and machinecraft it could be managed; [...]

Page 86: laudable

[...] their wives and families, as for a good education of a great part of the youth of this realm in good art and laudible exercise:

Page 93: mandated

We witness almost unawares the ruin of that classic enterprise of empire which is founded upon the theory of a balance of trade and a division of labor whereby the colonies, the dominions, the subject and manadated peoples are hewers, drawers, and food-bringers, serving those who live in cities, practice machine craft, and think themselves wholly benevolent.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Fabian Freeway by Rose Martin

Status: Complete (03.06.2013)

This book is officially on Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/4621/Fabian-Freeway-High-Road-to-Socialism-in-the-USA-Digital-Book

The PDF version of this book has badly marked pages:

125-137, 139-144, 148-153, 156-158, 160-164, 165-172, 173-175, 501, 503-513, 514-515, 531-535

I put in a request to the Mises Institute for scans of the new pages. There is not much demand for this book, and there is not much money for the payment of a new scan.

Also attached is a rough draft of the PDF version. I cleaned up a few of the easier scanning artifacts manually, and it does have a better OCR backend than the original. (24 MB compared to the original 40 MB) New scans of those badly marked pages should bring the size way down.

Edit (01/10/2013): Thanks to progressingamerica's work on his conversion of the book to HTML (linked below). I did an in depth comparison between my version and his, which also allowed me to also catch many more errors, and implement all of the badly marked pages into the EPUB.

Metadata: Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 66-28199
Download Links:
EPUB: Dead (See Mediafire Post)
PDF: Dead (See Mediafire Post)

Fix Notes:


Page 187: benefiting

and to benefitting unostentatiously from his private investments and an ample income derived from syndication of his column.

Page 212: benefited

[...] manager of the International Oxygen Company, which had benefitted from wartime contracts, [...]

Page 246: into (scan error?)

A hundred and seventy years ago the welfare state concept was translated nto the basic law of this land by the founders of the republic [...]

Page 361: centralized

[...] more centrallized control, as a result of Federal aid to states and municipalities; [...]

Page 366: right quotation -> left quotation

”Secretary’s Report (September, 1961-July, 1963)

Page 268: envisioned

[...] Rostow explained that the species of world-wide New Deal envisoned for underdeveloped countries will not wholly eliminate private business.

Page 421: Uruguay

They visited the following countries: Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Urguay, Brazil, where they met leading representatives of the Socialist and Popular Parties.”

Page 423: Footnotes 33 and 34 need to be swapped

Monday, July 30, 2012

The Principles of Ethics by Herbert Spencer

Status: Accepted onto Mises (08.31.12)
Note: I ran the scans through ScanTailor in order to clean up many of the scanning artifacts. Also, these came out to ~53% the filesize of the original PDFs. (If Fixed PDFs are wanted, please leave a comment).

Update (03.29.13): My mediafire account is suspended, if any of the files are needed, leave me a request. I personally created each Volume as a separate EPUB, it was combined on Mises's end, I did not have anything to do with that (and I have not taken a super close look). Here is the Mises.org link: https://www.mises.org/document/6991/Principles-of-Ethics-Anthology

Volume I

PDF:
EPUB:


Volume II

PDF:
EPUB:

Fix Notes:


(actual page # in parenthesis)

Vol I:

page (62):
Footnote is at bottom of page, but the * is not placed in text of the book. I have placed it in the EPUB near the end of the chapter.

page (293):
Go back to the times when blood-feuds were not only chronic between adjacent tribes but in the later times in which there were blood-feuds maintained from generation to generation between families of the same tribe, and contrast it with the present time in which, among civilized peoples, such aggressions as exist, relatively few, are far less violent in kind; and it cannot be denied that that negative latruism which is shown in refraining from injuring others, has increased.

 page (437):
 rubbed from head to foot with stinking blubber, gorged to repletion wtth putrid meat

Vol II:

page (105):
The knowledge thus obtained may be digested, re-organized and new knowledge educed from it by its possessor,

page (228):
§ 368. We saw (in Chap. XXIII.) that at a later stage of evolution a society may acquire a nature fundamentally unlike the nature it had at an earler stage;

page (267):
There is inability to separate in thought those assertions of religious freedom which do not involve aggressions on otherss, from those which do involve aggressions on others, in the form of nuisances.

 page (310):
perversions of men’s beliefs caused by absence of that sympathetic interpretration which negative beneficence enjoins.

 page (341):
Beyond the efficient household adminstration demanded alike by justice and by beneficence, there needs on the part of a wife sympathy in a husband’s interests and aims and anxieties.

page (363):
the ethics of evolution, as here interpreted, emphasize this form of beneficence; since the highest individual nature and the higest social type,

 page (395):
if gatherings for the interchange of ideas and mutual excitation of emotions add, in consid-siderable measure, to the gratifications of each and all;

page (399):
requirements which, indeed, will by most be denied, and by many will even be consid-sidered at variance with social obligations.

page (450):
I hold that the notions of what is right vary with the variations, and advance with the progess, of the social order.”

page (492): In the Index (definiteness) also defi-initeness,

EPUBs ONLY (Both Volumes):

Cleaned up the References section to make it more readable.

PDF ONLY (Volume II):

Bookmark Errors:

Part IV:
"Part IV. The Ethics of Social Life" -> "Part IV. Justice"
"VIII. The Corollaries" -> "VIII. Its Corollaries"
"XI. The Rights To the Uses of National Media" -> "XI. The Rights To the Uses of Natural Media"
"XII. The Right to Property" -> "XII. The Right of Property"
"XIII. The Right to Incorporeal Property" -> "XIII. The Right of Incorporeal Property"
"XIV. The Rights of Gift and Request" -> "XIV. The Rights of Gift and Bequest"
"XV. The Rights of Free Exchange" -> "XV. The Rights of Free Exchange and Free Contract"
"XVII. The Rights of Free Relief and Worship" -> "XVII. The Rights of Free Belief and Worship"
"XXVI. The Limits of State Duties" -> "XXVI. The Limits of State-Duties"
"XXVII. The Limits of State Duties - continued" -> "XXVII. The Limits of State-Duties Continued"
"XXVIII. The Limits of State Duties - Continued" -> "XXVIII. The Limits of State-Duties - Continued"
"XXIX. The Limits of State Duties - Continued" -> "XXIX. The Limits of State-Duties - Concluded"

Part V:
"Part V. The Ethics of Social Life" -> "Part V. Negative Beneficence"

 Part VI:
"Part VI. The Ethics of Social Life" -> "Part VI. Positive Beneficence"
"I. Marital Reneficence" -> "I. Marital Beneficence"

Appendices:
Added Appendixes A-E.

 References:
Added "Titles of Works Referred To"
Moved "Subject Index" as a child under References. Also -> "Subject-Index"

Saturday, April 21, 2012

America's Second Crusade By William Henry Chamberlin

Status: Accepted on Mises (05.02.12)
ISBN-10: 0865977070
ISBN-13: 978-0865977075

Initial PDF (16 unreadable pages): 25.9 MB
My PDF (Bookmarked): 12.3 MB
My EPUB: 452 KB

Towards the end of the OCR stage, I requested a rescan of 16 pages which were unreadable, and I was promptly given them the next day! What great service from those who work at the Mises Institute!

Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/5300/Americas-Second-Crusade
Fixed PDF:

Fix Notes: PDF Page (Actual Page)

Page 287 (279 actual)
Changed to "Czechoslovakia"
  • For Czecholovakia substitute Poland.

  • Page 337 (329 actual)
    Changed to "civilian"

  • The other is that military officers and cilivian officials

  • Touchups (EPUB):

    I added an hr (35%) tag before the Footnotes.  I believe it looks much nicer than what I was previously doing (an h2 "Footnotes" section).

    Touchups (PDF):

    I cleaned (almost) every page.  I got rid of lots of underlines/markings.

    New Scans of pages (PDF):

  • 313, 316, 317, 320, 321, 324, 325, 328, 329, 332, 333, 336, 337, 340, 341, 344
  • Sunday, April 1, 2012

    Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader + A Syllabus By Bettina Bien Greaves

    Status: Accepted on Mises (04.02.12)

    A Basic Reader
    ASIN: B000XG4Z6G
        - Original PDF: 41.3 MB
        - My PDF: 13.5 MB
    A Syllabus
    ASIN: B000XGBZF0
        - Original PDF: 21.0 MB
        - My PDF: 10.6 MB

    After creating a great OCR of the book, and completing the EPUB version, I had submitted my work to be accepted onto Mises.org.  I was emailed back with a request to add a much higher quality front/back cover to the book, and was given the source PDF used as the cover of the book that the Mises Institute published in 2007.  I added in the new cover for both the PDF and EPUB version, and resubmitted it.

    The EPUBs were promptly accepted and added onto Mises.org as the official versions!

    A Basic Reader


    Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/3128/Free-Market-Economics-A-Basic-Reader
    PDF:

    A Syllabus


    Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/3129/Free-Market-Economics-A-Syllabus
    PDF:

    Fix Notes:

    A Basic Reader

    I seem to have lost my Changelog for "A Basic Reader" (although there was not much changed if I remember correctly, maybe one actual error).  And here is my Changelog for "A Syllabus".  There was one actual spelling mistake, and in the EPUB version I did one swap to make it fit more in line with the rest of the book:

    Changes to the PDF Version

        - Added chapter #s
        - Fixed the tree structure
            - A nice amount of the bookmarks were out of order
        - Added a few missing bookmarks

    A Syllabus

    Page 135 (129 acutal)

    - important thing is the ancitipated prospects of
        - changed to anticipated

    In EPUB:

    Page 176
    - There is a list of short quotes in the format of author + quote.  I decided to swap the positioning to quote + authors (right justified).

    Friday, March 16, 2012

    An Economic Review of The Patent System By Fritz Machlup

    Status: Near Finalization (v.999)

    The original PDF had many scanning artifacts, and was bloated (24.8 MB). My PDF version has a (nearly perfect) OCR, and the images were manually cleaned. Here are some comparison shots:

    Page 33:
    http://www.imagebam.com/image/3be075180016769
    http://www.imagebam.com/image/5cf68f180016765

    Page 36:
    http://www.imagebam.com/image/587b80180016778
    http://www.imagebam.com/image/eb96b7180016773

    Page 75:
    http://www.imagebam.com/image/fb5d65180016787
    http://www.imagebam.com/image/460834180016782

    Page 78:
    http://www.imagebam.com/image/44925c180016791
    http://www.imagebam.com/image/eec321180016789

    My PDF also comes in at 5.15 MB.

    Fix Notes: PDF Page (Actual Page):


    page 30 (25):
    but the absence of references to the heated controvery of 1850-73 seems to indicate that they were not familiar with this literature
    • Changed to "controversy"

    EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!XV4kiCrZ!JcQf6DCjH7hKJWIxVjijgFjTXrlChGQ9I6axyAwlf0A

    PDF: Dead Link (If you are interested, please leave a comment)