Publication Date:December 25, 2007 Availability:Usually ships in 24 hours
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Still a Long Way To GoMay 6, 2008 2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Apparently, some corrections were made since the poorest reviews (1 star) were made as there is now a Table of Contents, though the Table is not accessible from the Kindle menu. Most annoying yet is that the apparent source was a text document with hard line breaks that were not removed. The result is a very hard to read with every other line contains a few words, often just one. Hopefully this will be corrected. In it's current form, perhaps it's worth a dollar, but I for one would rather pay more for a book that reads like a book.
Excellent value for dollarMay 3, 2008 7 out of 7 found this review helpful
For the Kindle version of this classic: 99 cents is excellent value for the dollar. The publisher responded to a prior negative review and added an active Table Of Contents to help navigate the lengthy content. Can you get the content free elsewhere? Sure - at any public library. But the chance to have this at my fingertips for 99 cents - great convenience and fantastic value. (I travel a lot and literally downloaded at an airport before a flight because I wanted to reread sections I remembered from my youth.)
No formatting, no table of contentsJanuary 28, 2008 5 out of 8 found this review helpful
The quality of this kindle book is utterly bad. It is just a plain text file copied (I believe) from Project Gutenberg. I don't think the maker put into any extra effort. There are no editing, no linkable table of contents. For such a huge book, it is totally useless.
Some may argue that for $.99 what you can ask for. First, I didn't buy it just because it is cheap. I don't want 16 separate files on my kindle just for the Arabian nights. Secondly, I think it is a great waste, even for Amazon's sake. The downloaded file is 8mb and I don't think it worth the pipeline coast Amazon pays.
I am now thinking maybe I will put in some time to make my own proper version and put it on Amazon. Not for profit, I just can't stand such an unpolished work. In fact, even the $2.79/volume ones by fictionwise are very poorly made. There are no toc either...
Table of Contents neededJanuary 20, 2008 2 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a huge book The tables of contents for each of multiple volumes are found only in the text at the beginning of each Makes it very difficult to use
This is a great bargainJanuary 12, 2008 8 out of 8 found this review helpful
For less than a dollar, you get the complete 16 volumes of the arabian nights. Amazon sells the same book in 16 seperate volumes, each costing $2.49 to $2.79.
