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Fephisto Posted: Wed, Jul 11 2012 6:21 PM

I just wanted to point out some typographical errors I've found.

Individualism and Economic Order, table of contents, "XII.  The Economic Conditoins of Interstate Federalism".

Way to Willpower:

Page 14: 'Unite States'

Page 34:  'Unite States'

Page 36:  'that this'

page 45:  'DO not'

Page 47:  'word down'

Page 64:  'train of though'

Page 72: 'my had is off'

Page 73: Forgot the )

Page 79: 'my miss'

Also http://www.amazon.com/The-Driver-Garet-Garrett/product-reviews/1142217698/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Most of the reviewers, including myself note typographical errors.  I didn't compile a list like I did for Way to Willpower, but just to let it be known...

Also http://mises.org/periodical.aspx?Id=4

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We actually have a wiki page for this exact thing!  Would you be willing to create an account for yourself and offer your contributions?

MisesWiki:Typos

 

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Fephisto replied on Wed, Jul 11 2012 8:26 PM

Got it.

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I saw a funny one last night:

I just finished reading Democracy: The God That Failed. In chapter 11, footnote 27 talks about Mises, Hayek, Rothbard and the perspective of each and then ends with "See also note 30 below." 

 

There is no note 30 below.

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Fephisto:


I just wanted to point out some typographical errors I've found...



This is great, thank you very much for pointing these errors out.  I will work on fixing the EPUB soon.

I believe this is the perfect oppurtunity to tell the forums a little project I have been working on the past many months.  I have been working on EPUBs of many of the books and have been releasing them on my blogspot.  I have also been in contact with some of the Mises staff in some cases to even get slightly better scans.

So far I have fixed 7 EPUBs:

Chaos Theory By Robert Murphy
Bourbon For Breakfast By Jeffrey Tucker
Lessons For The Young Economist By Robert Murphy
Man, Economy, And State By Murray Rothbard
A History of Money And Banking In The United States By Murray Rothbard
Anatomy of The State By Murray Rothbard
An Introduction To The Theory of Value By William Smart

And I have released 15 brand new EPUBs (Chronological Release order, earlier ones are probably not up to my newer quality standards):

Dying of Money By Jens O. Parsson
The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine: Volume 1 By Thomas Paine
The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine: Volume 2 By Thomas Paine
The Privatization of Roads and Highways By Walter Block (made it a few months before the official EPUB was released.. official looks fancier)
From Bretton Woods To World Inflation By Henry Hazlitt
An Economic Review of The Patent System By Fritz Machlup
Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader By Bettina Bien Greaves (ACCEPTED ON MISES)
Free Market Economics: A Syllabus By Bettina Bien Greaves (ACCEPTED ON MISES)
The Development of Economics by William A. Scott
America's Second Crusade By William Henry Chamberlin
Reassessing The Presidency By John V. Denson
The Incredible Bread Machine By R.W. Grant
Introduction To Economics By John V. Van Sickle
Ten Thousand Commandments - A Story of The Antitrust Laws By Harold Fleming
The Philosophy of Ownership By Robert LeFevre
The Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru by Louis Baudin

I have also been working on EPUBs of every Mises article (1998-2011).

John James:

We actually have a wiki page for this exact thing!  Would you be willing to create an account for yourself and offer your contributions?

MisesWiki:Typos



Wow, did not even know this existed. Thank you, I will be sure to use this when fixing EPUBs.

In depth release notes and links to the files can be found at my blogspot here:

http://misesbooks.blogspot.com

Also as a side note, for those who still like PDFs. All of the books in which I create brand new EPUBs, I also release better PDFs which are much smaller filesize, cleaner (sometimes new scanned pages), and have much better text backends (matches the EPUBs that I release).

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Fephisto:


I just wanted to point out some typographical errors I've found...

Nice work Fephisto! (And Tex2002ans as well!)

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Now reading America's Great Depression.

pg. 141 "attachè" rather than "attaché"

pg. 297 uses "FRC" rather than "RFC" (Reconstruction Finance Corporation)

pg. 304 Missing capital letter after period:

The artifical cheap money policy in 1932 greatly lowered interest rates all-around, and therefore further discouraged the banks from making loans or investments. just when risk was increasing [...]

pgs. 325-6 uses "property right" rather than "property rights." Occurs on once on both pages.

pg. 327 uses "principals" rather than "principles"

 

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The same errors were in the EPUB versions of those books, so I implemented all the changes that were mentioned.

Here is the link to the fixed The Way To Will Power EPUB:

http://www.mediafire.com/?cj5wqc8v5l53i68

Here is a link to the fixed America's Great Depression EPUB:

http://www.mediafire.com/?5t83cwel4s6wcq8

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cod2 replied on Tue, Sep 4 2012 2:58 PM

I've just received WHGDTOM and there are typos there too!

Page 71, pagaraph 4: "Sometimes they will permitted banks to susppend payment, as in the compulsory bank "holidays of 1933.""

There was another typo - but I can't find it now,

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Over the past week I have created EPUBs for these two books:

Wealth: A Brief Explanation of The Causes of Economics Welfare By Edwin Cannan

Erorrs in PDF: http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos#Wealth:_A_Brief_Explanation_of_The_Causes_of_Economics_Welfare
EPUB Version: http://www.mediafire.com/?58r1qmdmdbcckvs

The Twenty Year Revolution: From Roosevelt To Eisenhower By Chesly Manly

Errors in PDF: http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos#The_Twenty_Year_Revolution:_From_Roosevelt_To_Eisenhower
EPUB Version: http://www.mediafire.com/?cln5xuumszd2upd

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Holy cow, Tex, you've been hard at work.

 

Also, that Miseswiki page looks @#$!ing amazing.

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Thank you,

Also check out my Human Action topic here:

https://mises.org/community/forums/p/31548/491477.aspx

That will be a months long project... but could always use more eyes.

The wiki could always use some more typos though!!!! :D

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Just a heads up, I have been working on EPUBs for Leonard Read's books.  The PDFs are high quality scans, and short, so it is pretty quick to convert.  So far I have taken care of 5 books:

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos#Accent_on_the_Right
http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos#Awake_For_Freedom.27s_Sake
http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos#Castles_in_the_Air
http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos#Comes_the_Dawn
http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos#Deeper_Than_You_Think

These EPUBs are already submitted to the Institute, and in the pipeline.

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Here are a few more from Hoppe's The Great Fiction:

pg. 296,

footnote 51 reads:

See on this (Kantian) idea F. Kambartel, Erfahrung und Struktur, chap. 3, esp. pp. 122 f., 144; Hans-Hermann Hoppe, chap. 4, esp. p. 98.

The reference to Hoppe does not specify what book is being referenced. 

pg. 347-48, [emphasis mine]

Rothbard explained that all of these typically tortuous attempts ultimately only lead to the same inescapable conclusion: "implicit" and "conceptual" contracts are the very opposite of contracts, i.e., no contracts.

Should read "not contracts" or "not-contracts."

pg. 381, [emphasis mine]

Just as poor to rich, the childless does not stand in competition to those with children.

Improper verb-subject agreement.

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Presently, this is for the sake of repairing the EPUB version, the book can only be purchased through LFB. Also, should the wiki page be linked to this thread?

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Tex2002ans replied on Fri, Oct 19 2012 10:38 PM

ThatOldGuy:

Presently, this is for the sake of repairing the EPUB version, the book can only be purchased through LFB.

The Wiki is more for the books sold/hosted on Mises.org, but I will send an email over to Jeff Tucker informing him of the typos.  Thank you for more pointing out typos though!

ThatOldGuy:

Also, should the wiki page be linked to this thread?

John James linked to it earlier in the thread, and I did link to it a few times for the Leonard Read books:

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos

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ThatOldGuy replied on Sat, Oct 20 2012 12:43 AM

I see now. Still, I can also see the book being published here as well. I dunno.

 

I should have been clearer. I meant: should this thread be on the wiki page as a source or a place where potential readers can come to add links and such.

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ThatOldGuy:

I see now. Still, I can also see the book being published here as well. I dunno.

Indeed.  As of right now it is under an exclusive deal with LFB, but yes, I have no doubt that the Mises Institute will most likely pick it up to sell in the store some time in the future.

ThatOldGuy:

I should have been clearer. I meant: should this thread be on the wiki page as a source or a place where potential readers can come to add links and such.

Ahhh.. that would be a great idea. I will add it to the top of the wiki right away.

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MaikU replied on Sat, Oct 20 2012 9:45 AM

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I saw a funny one last night:

I just finished reading Democracy: The God That Failed. In chapter 11, footnote 27 talks about Mises, Hayek, Rothbard and the perspective of each and then ends with "See also note 30 below." 

 

There is no note 30 below."

 

 

you fool, it is written in the invisible ink!!!

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Ah yes! The invisible ink! Of course!

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Someone submitted a fixed EPUB of "Why American History Is Not What They Say" by Jeff Riggenbach.  I fixed lots of typos/errors.  It is now posted on the Mises Literature Section.  It is a vastly superior EPUB than the one hosted previously:

https://www.mises.org/document/6995/Why-American-History-Is-Not-What-They-Say

If the person who submitted this EPUB reads the forums, I would like to thank you for doing great EPUB work.

"Ouroboros or the Mechanical Extension of Mankind" just recieved a new cover today.  Should be up in the Literature section soon, or if you cannot wait, go get the newest version on my site.

Over the past week, I completed these Leonard Read EPUBs, which are also in the pipeline:

Liberty: Legacy of Truth
Seeds of Progress
Students of Liberty
Talking to Myself

I have updated the Wiki so far for all these Leonard Read books:

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos#Leonard_E._Read

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Since my last update, I have created EPUBs for these Leonard Read books (grab them all from my site):

Government: An Ideal Concept (grabbed a copy off FEE, not hosted on Mises)
Pattern For Revolt (Not hosted on Mises)
Romance of Reality (Not hosted on Mises)
The Coming Aristocracy
The Free Market and Its Enemy
The Freedom Freeway
The Love of Liberty
The Path of Duty
Then Truth Will Out
To Free Or Freeze
Vision
Who's Listening
Why Not Try Freedom

My EPUB of "Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941" by Charles Callan Tansill was posted on Mises:

https://mises.org/document/3130/Back-Door-to-War-The-Roosevelt-Foreign-Policy-19331941

Although if you grab it from my site, there is much less bloated code (no calibre conversion, is only missing a cover). Once I get my hands on the original cover, I will try to get the one on Mises.org replaced with the cleaner version.

http://misesbooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/back-door-to-war-roosevelt-foreign.html

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I added typos for "Studies In The Theory of International Trade" by Jacob Viner:

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos#Studies_In_The_Theory_of_International_Trade

and "Fabian Freeway" by Rose Martin:

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos#Fabian_Freeway

The EPUBs can be grabbed from my website, and hopefully they will be in Mises's Literature section soon.

I would also like to thank progressinamerica for his HTML version of "Fabian Freeway".  I finished a lot of the groundwork for the EPUB in September, but put it on hold because the PDF version has many pages with markings all over them (making it very hard to convert).  On January 3rd, he contacted me to point out his HTML version of the book:

http://progressingamerica.freecapitalists.org/2012/12/19/fabian-freeway-table-of-contents/

Over the past few days I worked on combining his version with mine in order to create the ultimate Fabian Freeway EPUB.

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I just finished an EPUB of "God of the Machine" by Isable Paterson.  This was requested by a commenter "Jason" on my site:

http://misesbooks.blogspot.com/2013/01/god-of-machine-by-isable-paterson.html

Here are the typos:

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/MisesWiki:Typos#God_of_the_Machine

I also found an EPUB of "Instead of Dictatorship" by Henry Hazlitt on my hard drive, which I completed a few months ago:

http://misesbooks.blogspot.com/2012/10/instead-of-dictatorship-by-henry-hazlitt.html

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