Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

Send feedback

What is it?
Screenshots, up to 3 (optional)
or paste one with Ctrl+V

We use your email only to reply to you.
The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Rea

The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read

Daniel R. Solin
2006
T4 179 pages · about 2h 59m to read Open Librarygoodreads

Who recommended it 1

Tim Ferrissreported

Similar books 6

Chosen by shared topics, the entries that hold them, and the people who recommended both.

Common Sense on Mutual FundsCommon Sense on Mutual Funds
T3 Common Sense on Mutual Funds
John C. Bogle · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Vanguard's founder on costs, turnover and fund structure.

“Wonderful Book. I highly recommend all of John Bogle's writings to any investor.” — Mohnish Pabrai

Source: Mohnish's Bookshelf — Books on Investing & Capital Allocation, entry 50

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Jason Zweig and 3 others

Don't Count on It!Don't Count on It!
T4 Don't Count on It!
John C. Bogle · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mr. Money Mustache

How Not to InvestHow Not to Invest
T4 How Not to Invest
Barry Ritholtz · 2025
Open LibraryGoodreads

Common investing mistakes catalogued by a working asset manager

“Barry Ritholtz dreamed up the perfect concept and wrote the perfect book to suit it” — Christopher Bloomstran

Source: Semper Augustus 2025 Letter to Clients, 'Books and Music', p. 88

Recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran

Index Investing For DummiesIndex Investing For Dummies
T4 Index Investing For Dummies
Russell Wild · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and tStay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution
T3 Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution
John C. Bogle · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Founder account of Vanguard, the mutual structure applied to fund management.

Recommended by: Mr. Money Mustache

Stocks for the Long RunStocks for the Long Run
T1 Stocks for the Long Run
Jeremy Siegel · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

US returns since 1802 show stocks beat bonds and cash over every long period.

“his book "Stocks for the Long Run" contributed greatly to the bull market's middle years” — Howard Marks

Source: Oaktree memo 'Irrational Exuberance'

Recommended by: Howard Marks

Where it sits in the reference 1

Index Investing versus Active Management
Investment styles

Topics

InvestingFinance and Markets