Less Fun in Kindle Edition
933260
Snuff is another delightfully funny volume in the Discworld fantasy series.  But the Pratchett fan should be aware of a problem with the Kindle edition.  The Kindle editor placed all the footnotes at the end of the book rather than at the end of a chapter or bottom of the page where you could reference the source.  Fans who love Pratchett's footnoting as much as I do should stick with the paper editions.  Other than that this book does not disappoint.  It is wonderfully Discworld.
2878566
Obviously my review is as much about the Kindle edition of this book as it is about the book itself.  I found the novel poetic, beautiful, deep, and thought provoking.  I am not a fan of magical realism, but this is an enjoyable read, and having traveled extensively, I can identify with descriptions that touch upon the less-than-concrete impressions that are left by each new place seen or experienced.

That said, the Kindle edition is an embarassment.  The publisher rushed a part-time intern into a room with a scanner and an OCR program and made sure they clocked out on time.  Maybe they should have thought about proof reading?  Italicized words appear randomly throughhout the text, obviously not intentionally.  Perhaps that's supposed to be a tribute to the author's first name?  But the words that are simply mis-recognized by the OCR software are the worst: "faces" becomes "feces" tipping us off to the standard of quality the publisher had in mind for this edition.  Come on you cheap bastards, just hire someone to proofread it before you throw it out there as a Kindle edition.
635307
In Listen to Your Quilt, the author provides copious examples of topics through illustrations that are on different pages throughout the book.  Unfortunately the Kindle edition only provides locations, while the text itself refers to pages, making it very difficult to navigate. The fuzziness of the illustrations are also a drawback.  The links to the aforementioned pages did not work on my Kindle, but did work when reading it on my iPad.  The iPad edition has the additional feature of looking at a close-up of the illustrated quilt samples. (Just pinch apart on the picture) The reader will still have to have made a note of the location to which s/he wants to return as there is no other way to return to where s/he was in the book.  Kindle edition drawbacks aside, the premise of the book is a good one and provides the quilter with some solid guideline for choosing quilting patterns
1631876
The Kindle edition is terrible. I used to carry Lonely Planet books in my suitcase, then replaced them with PDFs for lighter travel. Recently, I have bought the Kindle versions for Thailand and also for Laos (the latter includes other countries as well). Both are EXTREMELY DIFFICULT AND CUMBERSOME TO USE. My strong dislike for the Kindle format causes me not to use the guides when I otherwise would, and also makes me likely to procrastinate my travel planning -- serious disadvantages to the Kindle version. In brief, navigation is downright user unfriendly.

Example:

I am currently in Laos, flying to BKK tomorrow & I need to find a Lonely Planet recommended hotel near the airport. In the paper edition, it was simple: Open to BKK, and move to the "Sleeping" section, then look for recommendations near the airport. Likewise for the PDF version available at Lonely Planet. With the Kindle version, I've been leafing through for about 20 minutes, and I'm just now getting to Bangkok Sleeping information. It is found at "Location 2589 of 32287".

Call me dense if you must, but how in the world can I manage 32,287 "locations"? I don't even know what a "location" is, much less how anybody can think that thirty-two thousand of them are in any way useful. Paper and PDF pages seem to work just fine. Likewise for clickable contents or even searchable text -- I can't for the life of me figure out how to use these on the Kindle version.

So I am writing this strongly negative review -- and I still don't know which hotel or guesthouse I'll be staying in BKK tomorrow! Using paper or PDF editions, I'd have already made my decision by now. As it stands -- I'm still looking for the correct "location" among 32,287...??

I pause, take another five minutes -- I'm up to a half hour just trying to find the page or "location" for airport area hotels. Finally, on "location" 3437 -- after moving thru some 848 "locations", there appears to be a clickable link to airport area hotels. Let's see if that works! It does... so after a half hour of navigating, I've finally arrived at the "location" I'm looking for. Now, I can begin to look for a place to sleep. With paper or PDF editions, I'd already be finished and doing something much more interesting with my travel time!

If I can save one person from the frustration I have endured in using the Lonely Planet Kindle edition, then the time spent writing this review is surely worth it.
4280820
Although ebooks are a convenient way to read and even store favorites, not all books work well in this format.  TLoftR is one that needs paper to do it justice.  There are maps, illustrations, etc.  The story is great; the two star rating is for the Kindle edition.

Aside from the poor editing & proofreading (i.e., proper nouns not capitalized, missing punctuation, incorrect text placement in dialogues, etc.), the footnote function in this heavily annotated book does not allow the reader to return to the fn placed in the text after they have read the fn.  Very confusing and annoying!

Buy or borrow the book in print form to enjoy it the way it is meant to be read.
4101495
The book (content) is very good, however the Kindle Edition formatting leaves a lot to be desired. I keep hoping the publisher will clean up the document send an update, but that has yet to happen. It is impossible to select an individual word or even sentence, the best you can do is highlight a whole paragraph. This makes highlighting challenging. -- While not the primary issue, the appearance is not great, there are a significant number of poorly placed sentence returns, even in many cases breaking up words. I have seen the kindle conversion process for a pdf file produce a better, more readable document.
4380803
I love this book and I found the information within it very valuable.
However the kindle edition of it is lazily programmed. The index and table of contents are very poor, lacking detail, and it is difficult to find sections that you wish to reference.
There are no page numbers either, just section numbers.
This wouldn't be such a problem with a print edition which is easy to browse through, but it is not sufficient for an ebook.

If this kindle book was easy to navigate it would be indispensible.

The content is worth five stars but the poor design of the kindle edition is worth about two. Therefore I will give this edition four stars.
851743
This excellent information in the book is locked behind a lazy kindle conversion. References within the book are not hyper-lined, and, much worse, reference page numbers of the physical edition instead of kindle "locations," making them extra useless. All for a price approaching the physical edition.
3836525
The Kindle edition is nothing like the print edition.  The notes are in their own section, and you have to scroll all the way through the notes starting from Genesis.  The Kindle edition is awful.
1253649
Really really disappointed in the Kindle version of this book. It is NOTHING like the hard copy. Images of poses are tiny, and take what was a really good book and make it so much less approachable and user friendly. In the hard copy version, pictures are large, full page, and contain detailed information in the form of bullet points with details about the correct way to do the poses. In the Kindle version you cannot see the bullets, and the images are thumbnail small and not nearly as helpful as in the hard copy. Very very disappointed with this purchase.
3648312
My kid gets a lot out of this series.  We aware, however, the Kindle Edition does NOT include enhanced typesetting, she it's barely readable on the Kindle.
376148
I enjoyed re-reading this story but I was very disappointed at the quality of the Kindle edition.  There were many contextual typos (eg tack instead of tact -- made no sense in sentence) and I found it very distracting, especially having paid top $$ for the Kindle edition.  It needs to get cleaned up.

Also what's with putting the title page and associated publishing information at the END of the book? I know this isn't restricted just to this book but I would prefer 'normal' book format please.
711752
Too small of print to see and read in the kindle edition
2675646
The Kindle edition of this otherwise wonderful book is filled with what I can only assume to be coding errors. Portions of sentences are misplaced, leading to searches through an essay to try to decipher what was really intended.  Many apostrophes are missing.  In many cases the letter group "fi" is replaced with a space.  Many KIndle editions have format problems but this is the absolute worst.  Do yourself a favor and buy the print edition.
313066
Do not buy the Kindle edition. This is the second Kindle edition of an otherwise good book that is utterly useless in Kindle. The Chinese characters (and in this case also the pinyin) is reproduced in low contrast type with a minuscule font that cannot be changed. The other one like this that I foolishly bought in a Kindle (then had to get in hard copy) is 500 Common Chinese Idioms. Moreover, the way the "look inside" feature is set up for many books with Chinese characters you cannot get far enough into the book to see if this is a problem, I am more than a little upset with the Kindle service about this.
3194124
This review is a quick FYI not on the content itself, but the kindle edition. Other reviewers have thoroughly covered the content of this cookbook, and I agree with the positive reviews.

However, the formatting for the kindle edition is beyond terrible, to the point that I haven't used the cookbook nearly as much as I would like. The images are randomly at the end of recipes, the text is choppy, and the book extremely cumbersome to navigate through. It's frustrating to waste money on duplicate content, but I am most likely going to bite the bullet and order the hard copy, too, just so I can actually use and enjoy this book.

If you are interested in this cookbook, don't bother trying to save money on the kindle edition. It isn't worth it.
3668217
I hate that no effort was taken to make the kindle edition readable. The code snippets are just dumped in bold with zero formatting and simple code snippets span multiple likes because the code dump to the ebook had a pointless large margin. Trying to read in this format gives me a headache and I consider it unusable and unreadable.