Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Poor Kindle version

The one star is for the Kindle version.I bought the Kindle version of Empires of the Word after preordering and waiting several months for the release. That was a mistake. The Kindle version is poorly prepared. Not only are all the maps absent, but many tables and quotes are missing. For example, the table comparing counting from one to ten in the three major Semitic languages is absent. The footnotes, as usual for Kindle, are difficult to follow. Some footnotes seem to be lumped together at the end of chapters.I gave up on the Kindle version and bought the paperback. Much better! This book is an excellent history of language. Unfortunately, the conversion to Kindle was sloppy. I am usually a big Kindle fan, but in this case Kindle turned an informative, enjoyable book into mush.