An Electronic Edition of Leonard E. Read's Library - Liberty.me

An Electronic Edition of Leonard E. Read's Library

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Martin Moravec July 28, 2014 at 9:37 am

Hi everyone,

to make the Leonard E. Read‘s life work more accessible for anyone to read, we’ve decided to publish his whole library in ePub, Mobi, HTML and PDF formats without reserving any rights, making it free for everyone to read, share, edit and sell.

An early draft version of the first two books, Accent On The Right and Anything That’s Peaceful (including the essay I, Pencil), as well as the first three pamphlets from the library, Conscience On The Battlefield, Endowed By Their Creator and Instead Of Violence are already available at the Liberty’s Library.

In case you’ll find the venture interesting, feel free to join.

The library will be CC0 licensed, so happy reading, sharing, editing and selling!

Thanks for your time and have fun reading Leonard E. Read’s work.

Best, Martin

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Jeffrey Tucker July 28, 2014 at 4:54 pm

He is so good, so wise, so enduring. It’s remarkable how well his writings hold up, and how much they can inform us today. His influence can never grow too much. In fact, they still seem revolutionary to our ears. I do wish more people would take his strategic outlook more seriously. He anticipated so much about our present moment. Where others chased political solutions or imagined the merit of dropping leaflets over the world, Read saw that real change comes one person at a time, through the rejection of violence in favor of love. He wrote about this same topic for decades. It’s amazing that it didn’t stick. But it should have. For this is indeed the way the world is changing.

Thank you so very much for all this hard work.

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Martin Moravec July 29, 2014 at 6:10 am

Wow, well written Jeffrey. I’ll probably use the whole paragraph while promoting the library. Without permission (with credit, though)!

Best, Martin

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  Jeffrey Tucker July 29, 2014 at 9:45 am
  
  Please do!
  
  I wish that more people would read his work, and, more importantly, consider his ideas very seriously. He was a major and important thinker, influenced by Hayek and Mises and others but also original in many ways.
  
  When I first encountered his writing many years ago, I was not impressed. I thought it was too simple. It turns out that I was not quite ready for it. The style is simple but the thought is deep, consistent, and profound.
  
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  Martin Moravec July 29, 2014 at 3:45 pm
  
  I was wondering why I’m enjoying transcribing his writings so much… Thanks for assigning the right words to it.
  
  I’d venture to say that Leonard E. Read might make a better introduction to the ideas of non-aggression than Bastiat (not talking about Thoreau, [the other] Tucker or Spooner; though I love the expression of the girl when she first finds out I’m against the women suffrage).
  
  Thanks to him living in the 20th century, his ideas do not seem ancient, it’s impossible not to be inspired by I, Pencil (not that it’s possible not to be inspired by That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen) and most importantly, he was not a Frenchman (just saying).
  
  Do you wish more people would read his work, and, more importantly, consider his ideas very seriously? That’s why we’re planning a ThunderClap.it campaign to spread the library once it’s published.
  
  Best, Martin
  
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