I'm a big fan of the mises.org "Literature" section, but I do have a small suggestion. Rather than simply having a link to the PDF of the book/article, perhaps each file could have an "About" section, of sorts. I'm picturing something similar to Google Books, the most important part of which is probably the table of contents. Often, I do just open books to see the table of contents, assess what it's about, etc., but I feel rather guilty wasting all that bandwidth. It would also be interesting to list the books cited in the book, and other books that reference this book, although I realise that would be a cumbersome task (Amazon automate it, I believe). Perhaps users could help out with that.
Yeah those are good ideas. I'd like to see all the books on mises.org with their own 'homepages' like this: http://www.mises.org/rothbard/mes.asp
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I also think it would be a good idea in posts which contain promotions for books that are sold in the Mises store, to also have a link to the PDF next to the link which sends you to the Mises book store. Perhaps you could have a link which says [PDF] right next to it which would lead you to the download.
I can't recall exact posts, but I remember this happened to me a couple of times. I clicked on a link and was sent to the store, then checked the Literature section to see a PDF version sitting right there.
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