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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.

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Edwin Lefevre

T1JournalistsProfiles of investors and traders

American journalist, writer and diplomat (1871–1943) best known for his writing on Wall Street business.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the primary source nearly every later trading book quotes.

10 books of their own

Start here

  1. Wall Street Stories1901
  2. The Golden Flood1905
  3. Sampson Rock of Wall Street1907
Reminiscences of a Stock OperatorReminiscences of a Stock Operator
T1 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre · 1923
Open LibraryGoodreads

A speculator modelled on Jesse Livermore learns to read and trade the market.

“The finest trading book ever written is Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin LeFevre. It is colloquial reminiscences by a legendary speculator of the mistakes and lessons he learned over a…” — Barton Biggs

Source: Biggs calling it the finest trading book ever written

Recommended by: Barton Biggs, Bill Miller, Colm O'Shea and 5 others

Wall Street StoriesWall Street Stories
T4 Wall Street Stories
Edwin Lefevre · 1901
Open LibraryGoodreads

Short-story collection; his first Wall Street fiction.

The Golden FloodThe Golden Flood
T4 The Golden Flood
Edwin Lefevre · 1905
Open LibraryGoodreads
Sampson Rock of Wall StreetSampson Rock of Wall Street
T4 Sampson Rock of Wall Street
Edwin Lefevre · 1907
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Game Got Them
T4 The Game Got Them
Edwin Lefevre · 1908
Open LibraryGoodreads
H. R.H. R.
T4 H. R.
Edwin Lefevre · 1915
Open LibraryGoodreads

Novel; full title H. R. (Hendrik Rutgers).

The PlunderersThe Plunderers
T4 The Plunderers
Edwin Lefevre · 1916
Open LibraryGoodreads
To the Last PennyTo the Last Penny
T4 To the Last Penny
Edwin Lefevre · 1917
Open LibraryGoodreads
SimonettaSimonetta
T4 Simonetta
Edwin Lefevre · 1919
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Making of a StockbrokerThe Making of a Stockbroker
T4 The Making of a Stockbroker
Edwin Lefevre · 1925
Open LibraryGoodreads

Based on the career of broker John K. Wing.

Reminiscences of a Stock OperatorA speculator modelled on Jesse Livermore learns to read and trade the market.1923T1Barton Biggs, Bill Miller, Colm O'Shea and 5 others
Wall Street StoriesShort-story collection; his first Wall Street fiction.1901–
The Golden Flood–1905–
Sampson Rock of Wall Street–1907–
The Game Got Them–1908–
H. R.Novel; full title H. R. (Hendrik Rutgers).1915–
The Plunderers–1916–
To the Last Penny–1917–
Simonetta–1919–
The Making of a StockbrokerBased on the career of broker John K. Wing.1925–

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