ManyBooks.Net
A reader recently lamented that I cost him $1000s of dollars each year in the many CDs, books and DVDs that mention when they catch my fancy.
OK, Mike, this one is for you: Tons of free eBooks, in the form of PDFs and Kindle format, at a relatively new site called Many Books.
You can find books broken down by Author, Genre,top downloads by year, reviews and recommendations.
It is a totally free site maintained by Matthew McClintock:
All of the eBooks from manybooks.net are free, however donations toward the maintenance of the site are welcome and help defray the cost of bandwidth, file storage, and server hardware.
Many of the etexts are from the November, 2003 Project Gutenberg DVD, which contains the entire Project Gutenberg archives except for the Human Genome Project and audio eBooks, due to size limitations, and the Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks, due to copyright. As of July 2004 most current PG texts are available here, usually within the week of release. There are also public domain and creative commons works from many other sources.
Excellent stuff!
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December 7th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
http://www.businessbookmall.com/Free%20Internet%20Libraries.htm#Books_Libraries_
has free e-books broken into categories like business textbooks, non-business textbooks, business e-books, self improvement, and other free subject collections.
December 7th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I found a great book on this site called Bailout Nation! (not)
December 7th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
…i just downloaded
The Prince, by Nicolo Machiavelli
…been on my list for a while
December 7th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
…thanks BR for this post and to Matthew for the ManyBooks site
December 7th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Great post Barry, thanks for sharing this great resource.
December 7th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
ha ha. For your kind info, I didn’t even have ac to trade in US markets. There is a perception that some one blames something, it means that a person is short in US or some other markets in the world. Now this sickness is growing. Anyhow, everybody knows that you’re a smart guy, but don’t think that I’m cheer leader of money losing strategy.
December 7th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Wes Schott Says:
December 7th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
…i just downloaded
The Prince, by Nicolo Machiavelli
Excellent, now you’ll learn how to be a prick and can work for Wall Street or the Government.
(Actually, thanks for the post, I am going to download it also!!!)
December 7th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
John Jansen calling it a day at Across the Curve and going to work for TD Securities:
http://acrossthecurve.com/
December 7th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
i love free stuff like this… you definately get more than you pay for….
December 7th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
here’s a super cool site- AnyBooks- check it out- also free-
AnyBooks
December 7th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
No question that “free” is good.
But according to another school of thought, one gets what one pays for (or, as I prefer to put it, what one pays imposes an upper limit on what one can get).
December 7th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
TZ-
thanks for the heads up re Across the Curve- was never a big reader of that blog- but still-
we will probably see more and more blogs folding as the illusion of normalcy returns-
maybe BR himself will be putting up a quick note soon about prospective employment w/ the vampire squid-
time will tell
December 7th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
@ahab:
Barry’s a state school kid. Don’t know if they hire that kind of riff-raff at GS. ;-)
December 7th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Much better article than previous one about ECRI or some damn thing about recession. Please post useful articles like this. Thanks
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BR: That’s not how I post articles — I look for smart people saying insightful things, regardless of how much I agree or disageree with them.
You sound like a cheerleader — that is a money losing strategy . . . .
December 7th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
TZ-
i was being rhetorical- however- point noted-
BR is just a schmo- like the rest of us :D !!!
December 7th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
bsneath@4:02-
you think that i have to read a book to learn how to be a prick?
actually, i probably would,
but, that is not the reason i downloaded that particular sequence of 0′s and 1′s – i understand that part of the story is about a pact between the ruling class and the cardinals or pope…to divide responsibilities to manipulate and quell the stirring masses…
December 7th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
$1,000′s per year?
BR, I don’t like you that much, lol, plus, most of the books you put up I’ve been able to get off of Amazon for pretty cheap, Animal Spirits and The Numbers Game come to mind.
I did buy Bailout Nation at the store, can I get that free now somewhere? What ever happened with those signature plates btw? I thought I had signed up in time but maybe I missed something.
“Much better article than previous one about ECRI or some damn thing about recession. Please post useful articles like this. Thanks”
Perhaps you can “gps” your way somewhere you like better?
I mean, WTF, this is a Macro blog.
December 7th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Singer used the “F” word – I like the “F” word, doing the “F” word is good and needs to be taken advantage of at every opertunity.
Ben – I haven’t spent $1,000 on books per year either, but I do know I picked up some books that were recomended to me by…………SOMEONE……. on Amazon pretty cheap to, they were not the “F” word but life is not all about the “F” word is it?
December 7th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
paperbackswap.com is great, too. All you pay is postage for books you trade into the system. ;^) Great for those of us with book addictions!
December 7th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Wes, Presumptive of me. My apologies.
(I’m certain many folks who read my OTT comments call me a prick all the time – BR included)
December 7th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
this one is free for USA taxpayers with a library card:
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316009335&referer=brief_results
you get 2 weeks to read it / additional 2 weeks available .. usually delivered to your locale for pickup
December 7th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Speaking of Amazon, does anybody know an “easy” way to determine how much you have spent there in a year?
December 7th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
@donna Thanks for the heads up on that site, well worth a look. Anyone know of a similar UK based site?
December 7th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
@bergsten: I don’t think there is any quick way of doing it through Amazon themselves but if you have any kind of personal finance software you should be able to quickly grab the OFX files for your transactions from your bank’s online banking section and load them in. I use iBank for this (MacOS only thought, http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibank/), pretty useful for keeping track of the expenses. With it you can check the expenses for Amazon for a given period, account or over all easily: http://www.hansr.net/myndir/ZZ14B72E90.jpg
December 7th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
@HR — thanks. I was hoping for some sort of page on Amazon, but I guess it isn’t exactly in their interest to let you (or your spouse) know such things. You might even demand a quantity discount!
December 8th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Thanks for the post and comments with additional links. Here’s a link for books related to economics/finance … textbooks, CFA prep books, econ math, econometrics, blah blah blah … http://bdanalyst.blogspot.com/
December 17th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
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