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BK Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject.

He works from Charlottesville, Virginia as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute and managing editor of Mises.org.

He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is still a dilettante and a layabout, at least in spirit.

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new tools for old books

February 8th, 2010 by

bkmarcus

If I were still an active programmer, I’d try to automate this:

Amazon.com has thousands of public-domain books for the Kindle. They are garbage. They are poorly formatted and riddled with typos. They were all computer generated, never proofed by human beings.

Project Gutenberg has most of those same titles, formatted better (though not perfectly) and proofread by human eyes.

But Amazon has user reviews and ratings, and I can list their public-domain books by popularity.

So I’m using Amazon to assemble my reading list, which I then download from Gutenberg.

I’m sure the program to automate this is straightforward.

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