Read our full Icecream Ebook Reader review.Students will find the lack of note-taking and copying frustrating. The free version of Icecream Ebook Reader is quick and very easy to use, but only really suitable for recreational reading. Premium features include importing multiple ebooks simultaneously, adding notes, editing metadata, and copying text. Unfortunately, some of the options you can see in the menus are only available if you pay for the Pro version. The reader itself is similar to the Kindle app in appearance, with one-click (or tap) buttons for changing font size, color theme (day, night, or sepia), and viewing the table of contents. One particularly handy feature is the ability to archive and export your ebooks ideal if you use more than one PC and don’t want the hassle of importing your books twice. It supports EPUB, MOBI, PDF and FB2 ebook formats, and once you’ve imported your books they’re arranged in a neat bookshelf with a choice of viewing options. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Icecream specializes in smart, no-frills software, and Icecream Ebook Reader is no exception. "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Strategic insights that have survived 1500 years. Hilarious collection of short stories about two con-artists hustling their way across turn of the century America.ġ0. Everything you need to know about marketing, vanity, advisers, and crowd psychology in one children's story. The Emperor's New Clothes, by Hans Christian Andersen. Oh yes, and "all that glisters (sic) is not gold."Ĩ. It's all here: Diversification, risk, the perils of leverage, the dangers of an ambiguous contract, and proof that, no matter what happens, in the end the lawyers seem to win. The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare. In the quest for power, is it better to be feared or loved?įamous posthumous portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). If you haven't read it, your business rivals or classmates will have. The classic guide to power, written by the sixteenth century Florentine and dedicated to the infamous Cesare Borgia. "The Office" long before the TV series.Ħ. Reads like a description of half the offices you work in. A World War II manual for economic sabotage behind enemy lines. Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services. Meet anti-heroine Becky Sharand find out "How to Live Well on Nothing a Year."ĥ. Possibly the first Wall Street-style novel.Ĥ. The Victorian novel that tells the rise and fall of August Melmotte, the high-finance shark and con-artist. The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope. Barnum was famous, or infamous, for "never giving a sucker and even break," but his advice here is much more sophisticated - and worthwhile.ģ. Among the first personal finance books, by the nineteenth century huckster and showman. The Art of Money Getting Or, Golden Rules for Making Money, by P. oh yes, and the investment mania for "the company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is."Ģ. The classic, definitive description of the Dutch Tulipmania, the South Sea Bubble. Next time someone tries to persuade you of the "wisdom of crowds," refer back to this. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay. Here are ten books you should have on your Kindle, Nook, Kobo or iPad - and links to free downloads from the Gutenberg Project.ġ. So forget Thomas Friedman's "The Earth is Flat."Īnd spare us Michael Porter's "Comparative Advantage." How's that for lowering your cost of capital? Oh, yes - and you can download them for free. They have passed the test of time, and then some.
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