The Development of Economics by William A. Scott

Status: Created
Fixed EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/?oseqh5em1lq8g2w
Fixed PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?n23d4pcyx0ynmxq

Original PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?ksw7fkrpn9g4orq

19.84 MB final bookmarked version compared to the 41.8 MB version (Original)

Fix Notes: PDF Page (Actual Page)

page 135 (125 actual) (PDF Version)
A newly scanned image.

page 249 (239 actual)
Changed to "perfect":
"ends whose beneficence is in pefect harmony with our ideas of the supreme wisdom"

page 310 (300 actual)
Changed to "Ricardo":
"Ricarado had reckoned costs in terms of the amount of common or ordinary labor expended, measured in days or hours, and had held that changes"

page 334 (324 actual)
Changed to "devastated":
"the repatriation of the war personnel and its absorption into the home economies, the restoration of devasted territory,"

page 351 (341 actual)
Changed to "subtracted":
"The answer is, The least important one, since it is that which is conditioned upon the addition of a single unit to or the substraction of a single unit from, the supply."

page 363 (353 actual)
Changed to "impossible" and "profitably":
"three taken together. But this is impossibe, since, when most profitaby employed, they can give only a return of 10.’"

(UNCHANGED) page 376 (366 actual)
Mispelling?
Böhm-Bawerk skilfully demonstrated the inadequacy

page 398 (388 actual)
Changed to "circumstances":
"But, besides this, there are other co-operating cirsumstances which work, even more distinctly, in the same direction"

page 414 (404 actual)
Changed to "altruistic":
"and therefore irrespective of the egoistic or altrustic nature of the motives which dictate them and which "

NOTES:

Throughout the book there are changes in "cooperating" "coöperating" and "co-operating"

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).

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)

From Bretton Woods To World Inflation By Henry Hazlitt

Status: Near Finalization (v.99)
ASIN: B00268XIF8

The original PDF was extremely bloated at 48.79 MB. My PDF version has a better OCR, and I touched up a lot of the actual images to get rid of artifacts from the scanning process (cleaner look). It comes in at a whopping 2.47 MB (~5% the file size), and the EPUB comes in at a nice 185 KB.

Things That Need To Be Done:

• Need to find a high quality cover
• Might need to touch up tiny spacing/CSS issues to make it look nicer

Changelog:

page 62

• 2 quotation marks were reversed

page 136
mispelled "unnecessarily"

• "The Bank, apart from its unncessarily large subscribed capital"

page 178
mispelled "responsibility"

• "But, given a return of political responsiblity and courage,"

EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/?7654232wed9nk1d

PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?qb5p4pmp6f2awam

Original PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?fy7zz7tvvq970ff

The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine: Volume 2 By Thomas Paine

Status: Near Finalization

Fix Notes: PDF Page (Actual Page):

page 10 (xii):
To the Chairman of the Society for Promoting Constitutional Knowedge, May 12, 1792

• Misspelling in the original copy

page 61-63 (47-49):

• Changed the formatting of italics and bold slightly in EPUB version

page 182 (166):

• Reformatted the table to make it fit more reasonably in an electronic format

page 215 (199):

• Footnote 67, Took away italics in "From the" to match the rest of the book's footnotes.

page 267 (251):

• Footnotes require two columns.. take a closer look

page 580 (564):
Spelling mistake in actual book:

• that the project involves with it a destructon of the balance of maritime power;

Changed to "destruction"

page 673 (657):
Table output slightly changed in EPUB version

page 715 (699):
There are side by side boxes

page 850 (834):
There is a table of zodiac symbols. Doubt those unicode characters will show up in many ebook readers.

page 875 (859):
Spelling mistake in actual book:

• it speaks of things that had been accomlished at the time the words were written

Changed to "accomplished"

page 991 (975):
Fix in EPUB:

• Changed format of section "TO MR. HULBERT, OF SHEFFIELD," to fit more in line with the rest of the book

page 1055 (1039):

• I could punch a square, or oblong square hole for I or I 4 each

not completely sure what this sentence is supposed to actually be OCRed to, maybe "1 or 1 4 each"?

page 1152 (1136)
Added a missing period

• "I purpose, enclosing the fire in a bulb near the top"

page 1323 (1307):
Added a missing period (I believe I made the correct choice)

• "The first letter I sent was under Cover to Mr Christee of May 4th informing him of what would happen."

Notes on what still needs to be done in EPUB version:

• Images must be kept in proper ratio and scale
• Fix Table of Contents
• Create links pointing back and forth in footnotes/TOC
• Touch up TOC display information
• Look throughout book and add in blockquotes where needed
• Figure out how to create left and right columns (float CSS)
• Make it show up properly in ebook readers
• Touch up Poems chapter
• Nicer looking formatting
• Touch up Index
• Add Dropcaps

Notes on what still needs to be done in PDF:

• Add chapter/subchapter bookmarks

EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/?z4zkntnkmsf9uwe

PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?2c3enwh0nxxf23h

Original PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?g54uyfez1p5u9l0

Explanation of What I Am Doing

I just wanted to make a quick post explaining what I am doing with this site.

Mises.org does an amazing job at releasing all of their books for free in PDF form (and now converting many of them to EPUB):

http://mises.org/literature.aspx

I am doing multiple things:

• Fixing any errors in the EPUB version if it exists.
• Creating an EPUB version if it does not exist.
• Releasing a more optimized PDF version if needed (much smaller filesize, cleaned images, the OCR backend will match the EPUBs)
• (Update: August 2012): As of August 2012, before starting anything, I export the book to png files, and then I run them through imagemagick. This cleans up virtually all specks.
• This is a link to the .bat file I have been using. It takes a long time, but it cleans up every single specks, and works better than anything else I have been able to find.
• http://www.mediafire.com/?bzkxxl2qypjgxdh

While reading an EPUB version of the book, I am fixing up any errors that I find, and then release a "Fixed" version of the book. These will have a thorough changelog of what exactly was changed from the original. Usually this just includes small typos such as extra spaces, missing punctuation, accidental split paragraphs, wrong accent marks, etc. The professionals that Mises.org hires do a very good job at converting these books.

For those books which do not have an EPUB version, I am creating one which is as close to 100% accurate as I can. This involves taking the original scans of books (the PDFs released on Mises) and use ABBYY Finereader to OCR (Optical Character Recognition) the book.

Most/All of the PDFs on Mises are run through an OCR program, and then released. This automatic OCR does not do a 100% perfect job. What I do is manually go through each page and fix any errors that I find to create as close to a 100% accurate text backend for the book.

This is then converted into into a basic EPUB version. From there I go through a process of touching up everything: recreate tables in HTML, making sure images transferred, creating chapters, making sure formatting is correct (bold/italics are correct), creating footnotes, creating/fixing CSS, making sure unicode characters transferred (ç, È, Ê, é, £....), fixing little errors, etc.

As of now, I am focusing on older books (less likely to be in the process of being converted officially by Mises.org), and books which have bloated PDF versions (would benefit the most from having a tiny EPUB version).

Please contact me if you:

• Find any errors in my documents or the original versions
• Want me to create an EPUB of a specific book
• Want me to create a certain format of a specific book from my Finereader OCRs (ODT, DOC, TXT, etc.)
• Can't guarantee it will look pretty

Here is a list to my backup of every Mises.org book onto Mediafire:

EPUBs: http://www.mediafire.com/?iszjpz6pd1pya
PDFs: http://www.mediafire.com/?gcmj1km77kvy6

Foreign Language PDFs: http://www.mediafire.com/?somr2pyq3e0oe

The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine: Volume 1 By Thomas Paine

Notes on what needs to be done in EPUB:

• Footnotes pointing back and forth
• Look throughout book and add in blockquotes where needed
• Fix unicode quotes(?)
• Add smallcaps
• Add Dropcaps

Notes on what needs to be done in PDF:

• Add chapters/subchapter bookmarks

EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/?ou9ymt5og4byfkj

PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?bx37ti3j6b256k6

Original PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?82wssp6rad8w5dn

The Privatization of Roads And Highways By Walter Block

ISBN-10: 193355004X
ISBN-13: 978-1933550046

The official EPUB version was released a few months after I created my version.

EPUB (v1.05): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?eykydtee5aq1g45

Original PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mb682lioi1lafbx
Original EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?5ns35404p3is6no

Dying of Money By Jens O. Parsson

 I created the epub from this site:

http://www.delanion.com/main/dom.htm

Which I believe was a backup of the copy which was once on Mises.org.

v.99, I believe everything is correct besides some of the Footnotes... but without an original copy/scan of the book, I just had to make educated guesses.

EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?t0gkx9qekek2tbk

OR

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24424642/Complete%20epubs/%5Bv.99%5DParsson%2CJens.O.-.Dying.of.Money.epub

Lessons For The Young Economist By Robert Murphy

ISBN-10: 1933550880
ISBN-13: 978-1933550886

Fix Notes

Chapter 1:
The Scope And Boundaries of Economic Science:

• Missing .: 2nd paragraph, first sentence

Why Study Economics:

• Missing .: first paragraph, 2nd sentence.

Chapter 2:
After Second Box "Economists Can't Agree on the Right Medicine"

• Missing .: "are either dishonest or sloppy These passions"

Chapter 3:

• Extra space: First Box
• "Murray Roth bard".

Chapter 4: Consumer Goods versus Producer Goods:

• Missing .: End of 2nd paragraph

Chapter 6: How Prices Are Formed in Barter:

• Extra Space: "Alice, Billy, and Christy
• who arrive"
• Made consistent with rest of the book (no space between dash and next word)

Chapter 9:

• Missing space: Right after footnote 2. "profitable.2On"

Chapter 10: How Saving and Investment Increase An Economy's Future Output

• Missing .: End of first paragraph
• Missing .: Second paragraph, first sentence. "This is certainly a possibility For Example, if Bill"

Chapter 11: Example 1: Supply Reduction

• Missing .: First paragraph, 2nd sentence. "thousand barrels per day What effect will this have"

Chapter 12:

• Missing .: "the later money Market interest rates"
• Missing .: "will pay back any borrowed money There are several"
• Missing .: "debts and repayment history These companies sell"

Chapter 13:

• Missing ,: "In short entrepreneurs estimate whether their proposed"

Chapter 15:

• Missing .: "that occur in a system based on private property Indeed the very terminology"
• Missing .: "not mere artifacts of a market economy The socialist planners"

Chaper 16:

• Missing .: "socialist regimes in the 20th century Now it is true"

Chapter 18:

• Missing space: right after footnote 1
• Missing .: "eliminate the arbitrary disadvantages placed on particular sectors of the economy"
• end of paragraph

Chapter 19:

• Missing .: "apply among individuals in a pure market economy The case for free trade"

Chapter 20:

• Missing space: Right after footnote 3
• Missing space: Right after footnote 4
• Extra space: "period— often called the “Noble Experiment”—mobsters"
• Missing .: "as the heroin or cocaine trade is today The infamous"

Chapter 21:

• Missing .: "from an initial barter economy and eventually become money In such a situation"
• Missing .: "valued even before they had achieved their status as money In a pure market"
• Missing .: "no single agency in charge of “the money” No, various people could own gold mines"
• Missing .: "in the same way that the total amount of bicycles isn’t set by a government agency"
• end of paragraph
• Missing .: "very controversial to even define what we mean by “the price of money” Economists have devised"
• Missing .: "all of these activities much more orderly Having an unsound fiat money is"
• Missing .: "in its official mission of price stability But in terms of the whole"

Chapter 22:

• Missing .: "create new money in the economy On the contrary if the government runs"

Chapter 23:

• Extra space: "—whether a consumer or a capital good— entrepreneurs must use"
• Missing .: "making cars that no one wants to buy No, the correct thing to do is allow"

Side Notes:

• Should some of the tables be converted to HTML instead of images?
• This would save on some space, and would leave formatting up to the epub reader. On my Nook some of the tables are very small and hard to read.
• First letter of each chapter has:
  <big><big><big>T</big><big><big>.
• I believe a much better way to do this would be to create a larger font class and apply that (sort of like what is done already in the other ebooks with Dropcap).
• Should the "ind" class just be added into , instead of having (almost) every
  be class "ind"?
• You can still override this with any special needs ("noind")
• Inline formatting isn't very good practice.
• For example:
  <h2 class="right" style="margin-top:30px;"><a id="chap05_1"/>Society Requires Rules</h2>
  
  Why not create a class in the stylesheet called "chaptertitle" with the attributes of class "right" and "margin-top:30px"?
• Another example:
  <p class="noind" style="margin-top:20px;">
  
  This is after almost every single chapter title (or subchapter title) in the first paragraph. Why not create a "firstparagraph" class, which includes margin-top:20px as an attribute?
  Or "marginfifty", "margintwenty", "marginthirty" class (with margin-top: ##px)?
  
  This can then be used multiple times throughout the document, and be able to be changed in just the stylesheet, instead of throughout the entire document.

Fixed EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8p6np1svuot731x

Original EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0v3ieg82r0um6w5
Original PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7bggj927yyoobmd