Indeed, it would be intelligent to invest a few dollars in that great book. Somewhere in Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street, he writes that Intelligent Investor author Benjamin Graham allowed, shortly before his death, that his method of fundamental analysis no longer works. My cheapskate recommendation for legitimately getting a first rate investment book on your Kindle is The Elements of Investing (2010) by Charles Ellis and Burton Malkiel, currently offered as a free Pdf download by the non-profit Vanguard Group of investment companies. Malkiel is a longtime Vanguard director, and Ellis also has a history with Vanguard, so this is on the level.
It was linked in a prior thread: ) I saved the Pdf download on my PC hard drive, opened it, and then did a save as text. Then I emailed it to my free.kindle.com address. I found it a pleasure to read, although one or two charts were mis-formatted. I saved the Pdf download on my PC hard drive, opened it, and then did a save as text. Then I emailed it to my free.kindle.com address.
I found it a pleasure to read, although one or two charts were mis-formatted. Steve, any particular reason you went the extra step of saving the pdf as text? Amazon converts PDF. I sent a pdf with footnotes just yesterday, bracing myself for poor-yet-readable results.
Was I surprised! The footnotes were shown in gray and a smaller font. Not headers, no footers or page numbers. Somewhere in Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street, he writes that Intelligent Investor author Benjamin Graham allowed, shortly before his death, that his method of fundamental analysis no longer works. My cheapskate recommendation for legitimately getting a first rate investment book on your Kindle is The Elements of Investing (2010) by Charles Ellis and Burton Malkiel, currently offered as a free Pdf download by the non-profit Vanguard Group of investment companies.
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) EPUB ebook.
Malkiel is a longtime Vanguard director, and Ellis also has a history with Vanguard, so this is on the level. It was linked in a prior thread: ) I saved the Pdf download on my PC hard drive, opened it, and then did a save as text. Then I emailed it to my free.kindle.com address. I found it a pleasure to read, although one or two charts were mis-formatted. I think he forgot to tell Warren Buffett Anyhow thanks for the link I'll be downloading that ASAP. Buffett still follows Grahams method but he allows for Fishers philosophy as well.
Remember those old vinyl records? Remember jumping on the 8-track bandwagon?
Switching over to cassette tapes? How much money you spent converting your music collection to compact discs? How about your VHS movie collection? You probably emptied the bank switching over to DVD, and God forbid you upgraded to Blu-ray.
Keeping up to date with technology is expensive, and it's happening to books, as well. With eBooks quickly replacing hardcovers and paperbacks, you're in for easier reading access, portability and saving some space, but you're also going to shell out some cash to build up your library. But you don't have to. There are a ton of free eBooks out there, no matter what eReader you own—Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, Sony's Reader, etc. And with those eReaders comes fantastic eBook stores for easy browsing and purchasing.
They have tons of great digital literature for sell, but you shouldn't waste your money unless necessary (or want to). There's plenty of free options out there, so make sure you exhaust the free before you receive the fee.
The majority of the free eBooks available are either promotional items or older, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books, which account for nearly. And it doesn't matter what eReader you own, or if you prefer reading digital copies on your computer, because you can convert almost any of the common eBook files into the version you need using something like. Okay, enough babbling—here's some of your options. Step 1 Amazon Kindle Store Yes, there's tons of costly eBooks at Amazon's Kindle Store, but there's also some free eBooks available. Actually, there's thousands of classics available for nothing, from to. Link: Also, Amazon has tons of limited time promotional items, which means free for a 'limited' time. If you check on a regular basis, you can come out with some pretty decent freebies.
Link: (sorted by price) Step 2 Google eBookstore Yes, Google has an eBook store now, aptly called. It opened roughly four months ago, and also has free eBooks for download. Their traditional formats are supported on Android and Apple iOS devices, Nook and Sony e-readers, and the web.
Link: Step 3 Internet Archive Texts You've probably seen a few out-of-print television commercials, after-school specials or instructional videos at the Internet Archive, like or for letterpress printing. But they also have an abundance of free texts, which you can download in different formats like ePUB, Daisy, PDF, plain text, DjVu, MOBI or Kindle. Link: But an easier way to search for eBooks from the Internet Archive is through their initiative Open Library, where they're trying to provide a page on the web for every book ever published (a daunting task).
Just go to the website and do a search, making sure the 'only show ebooks' option is checked. Then just click on the book link to see the formats. Available in ePUB, Daisy, PDF, plain text, DjVu, MOBI or you can send directly to your Kindle. Link: Step 4 Project Gutenberg This amazing website is run by none other than the inventor of the electronic book, Michael Hart. He invented eBooks way back in 1971 (yes—they're that old!) and to this day, continues to make free eBooks available to all who wish to download them at Project Gutenberg. There's over 33,000 freebies for the taking, which is 100% legal and available as ePUB, Kindle, HTML and text documents. Link: Step 5 ManyBooks.net ManyBooks is just like Gutenberg above, only it has a hipper vibe, one that's more easy to navigate.
The best thing—it has over 26,000 free titles in over 20 digital formats, including LIT, LRF, ePUB, MOBI, PDF, etc. Link: Step 6 FeedBooks FeedBooks does sell eBooks, but they also have a large collection of public domain books, along with a section where authors can publish their own books for people to download and enjoy freely—a great idea. These are available in ePUB format.
Link:. Link: Other Notable Places to Get Free eBooks The ones above are the best and most versatile places on the web to get free reading content for your e-Reader, but there are some still worth visiting. Here they are:.
Just search for a book (available web, Kindle, MOBI, Palm, ePUB, Nook, RTF, HTML and more). They don't have much, but it's worth a glance. Also not many, but worth checking out.
Available in ePUB format. Do you know of any more places to download free digital books? Read the original article on. Copyright 2017.