The book itself is fantastic, however this edition has not been properly formatted for the Kindle
348317
The books content is fantastic, however this edition is very much an OCR'd copy. The text contains thousands of hyphenations and notable errors where page numbers (from the OCR process) appear amidst the text.

All in all however - an excellent purchase!
3213327
First off, this is a fantastic book. I used the 1st edition with TFS 2008. This new edition includes great content for the new, completely revamped, build workflow process in TFS 2010.

However, as a new Kindle user, when I went to purchase the second edition, I ended up with the wrong one. After returning it via the Amazon Kindle return process (which is pretty painless), I was able to get the correct version. I wish Amazon had a better way of classifying/naming their book versions. They should call the Kindle versions "Version 1" and Version 2" to coincide with the book versions. Instead, there is the regular Kindle version (which is the new one!) and the Kindle "November 11, 2009" edition. Hover your mouse cursor over the Kindle links to see which picture appears. If you want the newer edition, be sure to click on the Kindle link with a "2" appearing in the picture of the cover.

As with any IT books for the Kindle, watch for missing content. I've been seeing this problem with a lot of IT books from Amazon. Maybe we need to create a web site called MissingKindleContent.com or a way (unknown to me!) to report Kindle errors to Amazon so they can fix it.

So far, no problems with this book. Big thumbs up!
2902760
I am a scholar of gender and religious history (currently completing a PhD).  This is a seminal piece of scholarship and I highly recommend it.  HOWEVER, the kindle edition is awful!  Mine was missing half of the first and the entire third chapters.  I promptly returned it and bought a hardback copy.

Thanks but no thanks Amazon, what a failure!

Also, the Kindle version does not contain traditional pages so citing is difficult.
4391589
Looks like a pretty great book. Unfortunately I purchased the Kindle version, which is so poorly formatted as to be literally unreadable.

The Kindle version is formatted such that the entire page is rendered within a small area in the center of the screen, and does not reformat to fit the size of the device (see attached picture).

I'll probably purchase the physical version, since I'm still quite interested in reading this book. It's a rather unfortunate first experience, however.
3776424
The Comic is fantastic - 4 Stars.
Sadly however, the Kindle Edition published by Amazon makes this almost unreadable and brings the review down to under a single star.
4626752
I'm enjoying this book very much, but the Kindle edition contains dozens (if not hundreds) of typographical errors that were presumably introduced during the conversion process to the Kindle's Topaz format. Most of the errors are in the form of ommitted spaces, extra spaces, superfluous hyphens, and misplaced quotation marks. It makes me wonder if there was any human supervision or proofreading involved in the creation of this Kindle edition. This adds frustration to an otherwise pleasurable read.

A good publisher obviously won't tolerate even a few typos in a published book. I don't see why the same care can't be given to ensure an error-free electronic edition. I support the right of publishers to charge whatever they want for e-books, but when a computer file costs thirteen bucks, I would at least hope that it would be a mistake-free e-book.
332723
The book is great, and I enjoyed it, but the Kindle edition has a serious flaw--the links to the footnotes are non-existant.
4878744
The content of the book itself, like all of Sorabji's works, deserve 5+ stars.  The rating is brought down by the poor format of the Kindle edition.

The primary problem is the handling of footnotes.  Each footnote is a hyperlink, which jumps to a page at the end of the book.  But there is no link there to take you back to your spot in the text.  On the Kindle, that's not a big deal, you just hit the "back" button.  But on the Fire, there is no easy way to get back to where you were; when reading on my Fire, I had to (try and) remember to drop a bookmark before jumping to a note.

That would be manageable; but what eventually made me return the kindle book was when I discovered that some footnotes had not been formatted as hyperlinks in the text, so there was really no way to get to the footnote text at all!  That's a serious problem for an academic book; I'll get the print edition instead.

This isn't really so hard, but publishers have to sort this out, particularly for academic texts.  If your text has footnotes, FORMAT THEM PROPERLY.  By which I mean, that when you read the text on the Kindle, it pops up a mini-window with footnote text (which, on the Fire, is interpreted as a jump to the correct note, which always has a return link on it).  A press like Chicago should be able to manage this!
1568423
I don't want to punish the author with a bad Review.  The content seems well-written and informed, but chapters in the kindle edition have sentences that start off the screen or bleed off screen, so I can't read it.

I tried changing font sizes, tried landscape mode, tried updating my kindle, tried comparing it to other kindle books I own but no luck.  Frustrating, but I'm giving 4 stars because what I can make out looks good!
4653508
I love the comic, it's great, but the Kindle version is not formatted properly.  On the Kindle (newest gen, 7") the comics take up less then half of the screen and the type is so small it's very hard to read.  And because it's graphical, you cannot change the size of text.  I don't understand why it wasn't formatted to view sideways on a kindle.  The only way to read the comic is on the Kindle App on my Mac or on my iPod touch - so I can still read it, but I'm still disappointed it doesn't read well on the Kindle at all.
138155
Five stars for the book itself; it's long been a favorite of mine.  The Kindle version does contain illustrations, which is nice, but it's also full of formatting errors.  In any event, well worth the (Kindle) price.
3088995
I would love to read this book, but the Kindle version is SO messed up....first page seems to be missing, 4th page missing, gave up after that. Please fix this so we CAN read it on Kindle.
2192891
I will revise this when/if the book is fixed but there are major formatting issues with the first couple of chapters of the Kindle edition, which makes it basically unreadable. I love Alyssa Rose Ivy's writing, and I'm hoping she will fix it so I can actually read the book.
2120894
This is a great book - a WW II classic.  But the Kindle edition is full of missing, misplaced and misspelled words and typos - making it a bit more difficult to read. I'm enjoying the read, but disappointed by the sloppy translation.
4420688
This book is one of my favorites of all time.  I've purchased it at least 7 times and have given away each copy to someone who would laugh as hard as I did.

That said, the KINDLE edition is the absolute worst. All the footnotes are at the END of the book - it's impossible to read as the authors created it.

Curse you Kindle!
465866
A must-have for anyone who writes, but this eBook edition has atrocious formatting. If there is an update to fix that formatting, I would gladly leave a 5 star review because I re-read The Elements of Style once a year and swear by it to my students.
3080566
This is a wonderful story. I recommend the book, but not this Kindle edition.
This edition is so poorly transcribed that it's almost funny. While my granddaughter reads from the pocket book edition, I read from my Kindle which allows me to see immediately all the errors the Kindle edition has. Misspelling is the most common and frequent error with words such as: jnce, lik9, traly, aud, ehrug. Not a single page is error free. If you want to really enjoy the read, get it in another edition.