[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

[Skip Fox]

My problem with Amazon Books (that they sometimes are not easy to search and
that they often give too little information about the books contents and/or
edition) is exasperated with Kindle Books.  Which edition is best of Moby
Dick? Are there truncations? I.e., are you reading a good version of the
book, or have the editors' "fixed" Dickinson's punctuation and
capitalization (as Perrine and Arp did in a freshman text and as the Barnes
& Noble version of her poems.  

 

The designation of Kindle Edition or Kindle Book does not give me
confidence. 

 

This is not a minor problem. Sometimes Amazon just says four novels by an
author without telling which. 

 

Their customers for Kindle seem to be probably readers of popular fiction,
not those who are concerned about the text they are getting (like writers
and scholars). And the Amazon Kindle operation seems like a vendor which is
not overly concerned with its product. 

 

That's from looking over the list for about an hour so I could be wrong.

 

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