[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

[Halvard Johnson]

Quite so. I checked out Chekhov among its Kindle books and couldn't even
tell
who'd done the translations.

Hal

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:

>  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.
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> This is not a minor problem. Sometimes Amazon just says four novels by an
> author without telling which.
>
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> 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.
>
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> That’s from looking over the list for about an hour so I could be wrong.
>
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>



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