For those who are as confused as me.. Poor Charlie's Almanack is a book with a collection of speeches and talks by Charlie Munger, the right-hand man of Warren Buffet.

I wonder if Chalie did not request this version to be released. 1) it is free so no one who deeply wants the knowledge is deprived of it due to cost. 2) it gives opportunity to those who will grind through it to be ahead of those who wait for the finished work. 3) it is good marketing in that quotes can be found and published and the very normal and expected complaining about this version by the public increases the knowledge of the work and builds expectation for the paid version. And this cost almost nothing to produce and distribute, so was the best kind of publicity - free.

They say unformatted, and they mean it. One giant wall of text.

Edit: And completely uninspectable, un-curlable, un-requests-able. What a nasty webpage.

It's kind of amazing that this travesty of a page is a Next.js app, where the "unformatted text" is embedded in https://www.stripe.press/_next/static/chunks/pages/poor-char..., and someone bothered to write some custom CSS for it. An actual unformatted HTML page would be infinitely less hostile.

The contents of a $30 book is available here, free.

Yet the comment section will endure much complaining by those who feel entitled that the layout, formatting, and typesetting be given away for free, too.

Terrible. Why bother? This should be acutely embarrassing for the people responsible.