Fun facts, little heavy handed, so,so action, Kindel Edition has no Text To Speach option
931228
Although the book downloaded at midnight on release day I spent 2 days finishing Kathy Griffin's new book. Gossip just won out. Then I got to tear into the Dan Brown book, The Symbol. Although not as good at The Divinci Code (that is a monster to try and follow up with) I found the book intriguing, somewhat fun to read. It kept me interested enough that when I was off to an Emmy Party to watch the show I wanted to listen to it with the Text To Speach option. Turns out the publisher had their issues and chose to keep this option off. (NOTE TO PUBLISHER: the text to speach will never replace a person who does a great reading. The text to speach is adequate for me to listen to for 25 minutes as I travel to a friends house. Past that if I wanted to hear the whole thing I would have bought the audio version. Quit feeling threatened. Start looking at it as a suplimentation to the book and nothing more.).

I can say I am glad I only paid $9.99 for the book though. I look forward to Dan Brown's next book now that he took a huge leap off the cliff of producing something after his monster hit.
4789105
I loved The Eight.

The Fire is a decent sequel. Some familiar characters, and many new ones. The history felt a little more heavy-handed than in The Eight, but it's still interesting.

The Kindle edition has terrible layout and editing issues. Many words are run together; many lines are duplicated (e.g. the last sentence and a half will show up twice). It's very distracting, and it's the worst Kindle version I've seen for a traditional book.

I'd recommend getting the physical book over the Kindle edition if you enjoyed The Eight and are looking to get back into that story.
3892243
I wanted to love the 2015 "Valiant Universe Handbook." The information is helpful; the profiles are well written; the art is superb. But, frankly, the text is too small for the Kindle which is how I purchased it since it was free. I cheerfully recommend picking this up if you see it at a local store but the Kindle edition should be avoided, even at its attractive price. You simply can't read the text.
1810815
I only paid a buck for this and I didn't really know what to expect. What I got was a nicely formatted text version of the book. No graphics, no footnotes, no extras. I must say I was a little disappointed. The bare text only slightly less formatted is available free from gutenberg.org so what did my $1 buy me?

The stories, of course, are superb. But paying even $1 for this eBook? Hmmmmm. Not so much.
2051347
The Kindle Oxford Milton PARADISE LOST has no notes, and the Afterword explains that this was deliberate but that notes are nice to have, and you can get them in other places.

Meanwhile, if you don't want to pay extra for Philip Pullman's excellent introduction and sparse personal comments before each book, as well as 12 Dore illustrations which normal Kindles won't make much of -- then you might prefer to pick up an ebook freebie from Gutenberg or Amazon itself.

Sorry to have to be so specific about what edition I'm reviewing, but as you can see all the PARADISE LOSTs get jumbled together in the review sections.
4002056
My 7, 5, & 3 year olds enjoyed the story line, but were frustrated by the poor placement of the pictures with the corresponding text in the Kindle version on our iPad.  On page 19 (when the leaf explains they are about to let go of the tree), we just see a big black box - no picture.  Several prior pictures have rectangles with faded out colors.  Some of the text is in a light grey font - hard to read compared to the darker font.

The 7 year old loves Magic School Bus books.  Wally Wonders is like that series but for three year olds.  No scientific terms used.  Very simplistic explanations (leaves like the sun because it helps them grow).  My three year old listened well to the story, but I'm not sure she learned anything she hadn't already picked up from her older siblings' science lessons.

For the price of free, the book gets three stars.  Had I spent money on it, I'd be more peeved about the technical issues (missing picture?) and would want a refund.
3595633
I read the Kindle edition of this book.

Let me start off by saying, I did enjoy this book, but don't be confused by the Star Wars logo on the cover. Other than the location, this book has little to no The Last Jedi tie-in, and doesn't much feel like your typical Star Wars book. The four novellas could have easily been written about Las Vegas, with only minor changes.

Set in the fantastic, somewhat hedonistic, gambling resort town of Canto Bight, each story follows a new protagonist through a mini-adventure. You have corrupt cops and politicians, crime lords, bar owners, private investigators, a little girl, the vaporator salesperson of the year, and three goofy brothers who must be a little force touched.

Is it worth reading? yes, I enjoyed it. Would I recommend it to a Star Wars fan? Not necessarily.

UPDATE 01/11/2018 - As more behind the scenes details about The Last Jedi come out, it has been revealed that a number of the main characters in Canto Bight (the book) appear in the Canto Bight scenes in The Last Jedi (unfortunately some that hit the cutting room floor).  It doesn't change my comments on the feel of the book, but for a look at some of the main characters, search for "MUCH TO LEARN YOU STILL HAVE: 10 ALIENS YOU SHOULD KNOW FROM STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDIS CANTO BIGHT".  (Amazon won't let me link to the article).
3189308
I quite liked this (and all the other Doc Ford books I have read so far) and I like the Amazon Kindle and I like reading using it.  I don't want to write a real review of this book but just to note that there seems to be a bit missing in the Kindle edition between "did come out" and "I wasn't imagining", at location 3410 of 5995 where the text goes
"Half an hour later, Roxanne did come out.
I wasn't imagining the chill in Barbara`s voice when she said, Did you happen to read a..."
4921315
Regardless of what some may think of the content, Steve Sack just got the Pulitzer for his opinion page cartoons. Would it kill Amazon to include one more image that would fit nicely on the kindle screen?

The kindle edition is really convenient but the missing content is irritating. Also see frequent formatting problems in article titles that include duplicated, run-together text. Gives an impression of sloppiness.
4067894
Numerous reviews discuss the content of the book at length. I'd rather focus on the book itself. I've had the opportunity to read both the paperback and Kindle versions of this book, and this review is specifically for the Kindle version. My issues with Guns, Germs and Steel are two-fold: first, the book is huge. There is a LOT of content to cover, some of which is repetitive, and Mr. Diamond *loves* his case studies. While very thorough, at times I feel a bit like I'm being hammered on with example after example supporting his thesis. A good 20% of this book could have been eliminated and still have been just as substantial.
Secondly, and the main reason for a 3-star review instead of 4, is specifically dealing with the Kindle version's layout: while there are repeated references to tables and maps, they do not appear in the Kindle version. They really made a difference in making some of what Mr. Diamond references, clear, in the paperback, but with them gone in the Kindle, it rapidly becomes confusing and uninteresting. Footnotes, especially linked footnotes, would have gone a LONG way in promoting the readability of the book, and made the girth much more bearable.
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.
2308476
Quick read, mostly nice characters, a few twists, average author.  These books are very readable, don't require much thinking.  The biggest gripe is that the Kindle version does not show chapter numbers.  When the Kindle goes haywire which it has recently, It is much harder to find the chapter that you were reading.  I learned to keep an eye on the percentage read when I start a chapter ... makes it easier to figure out where I left off.
2398729
I'm suffering some buyers remorse on this one. The book is good. Lots of interesting ideas for backpacking foods. However, I bought the kindle edition. Kindle is great for novels and such, not so good for instructional manuals and cookbooks. I want to mark pages, be able to flip through it quickly.
Oh well... maybe I can find a used version cheap.

Any way, I like the book. But you better have a dehydrator for a lot of ingredients. Its heavy on the home-dried foods. I'd prefer a book that involved off the shelf food, with a lot less dehydration work. It shouldn't take me a week to put together meals for three days - that a diminishing return.

The extras in the back were okay, but a bit strange for a cookbook. Trail histories I can read somewhere else. A list of food sources, review of dehydrators, etc. might have made more sense and been more practical in a cookbook (like the included tables for converting cups to quarts).
3680619
I love this book in the hardcover and have given various copies away. But my Kindle edition isn't user friendly, omits so much and is disappointing. I hope it gets fixed.&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/365-Days-of-Power/dp/B003RWSDRK/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">365 Days of Power</a>
468078
Doubleday's firsthand account of the campaigns was a refreshing look, and sometimes didn't seem to come in focus with what other 'non-eyewitnesses' have had to say.  The lack of another star here is solely on account of the lack of maps in this Kindle addition.  Studying a military campaign without including maps is like reading Dickens without the inclusion of vowels.
2906923
I liked this book, though sometimes I found myself wondering " Why is he telling me all this?" (Hang in there if you are reading it-it will all tie together--)  But I was more than a bit upset when I got over half way through the book and found the pictures omitted and a note saying I should refer to the paper edition. Are you kidding? Then tell me that up front so I buy the paper edition, since I obviously don't have access to it. If you are going to produce a Kindle edition, then do it in complete form, NOT some second-rate trimmed down version.
1799084
I really like this story. Especially since I didn't like Siege very much. I would give this story about 4 stars. It's a fun adventure, and I really like how the big three bond again. It reminds me of the better parts of Star Trek V where Kirk, Spock, McCoy are camping in Yosemite (yeah, the movie was mostly awful, but to this day I still get a hankering to sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat when roasting "marshmelons".) The reason for the two stars is for the Kindle edition of this story. Most of the story is readable, but every now and then you won't be able to make out the double page spreads. For some reason even when zoomed in, you can't make out the text. I got the Kindle version because I needed to safe some space, but still wanted to read the story. I own a Kindle HDX, and I haven't had trouble with other Kindle formatted comic books. Although I really wish that all the Kindle comic's double page spreads would flip to landscape when you turn the tablet. If you want to check this out, get the print version.