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Title: Why would you pay for a book that is in the public domain?
Review: The Kindle format makes it easy to read. As I use this classic as a source of quotes, I find Kindle the best medium for reading it, and a PDF the best source for copying passages to include are references in other works. Amazon's price is so low that there is no question of value. Just getting it on my Kindle, in a format more useful than PDF, makes it worth the price. Also makes it not worth my while to look for free ebooks, which I'm sure are available. Just as Steve Jobs hit the magic price point with $1 per tune on the iPod, Amazon has found it here.I also recommend John Stuart Mill's autobiography. As an extraordinarily precocious child he knew his father's friend David Ricardo quite well, also Jeremy Bentham, Hume, and many other leading lights of the era. He knew of Adam Smith, and traces the personal relationships among this exceptional group of men.
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