Kindle version of the Hobbit
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Comparable with Chaucer and Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the most influential writers in the English Language.  His masterful story telling and tails of adventure can be read on so many levels.  Tolkien's style and themes have been imitated time and again, and many words have come into the English language from his works.  It's a must-read for a full understanding of the current day culture in all English speaking parts of the world.

The Hobbit is a light hearted prequel to Lord of the Rings series.  A Hobbit and 13 dwarfs set off on an adventure to fight a dragon and reclaim a lost kingdom.  Of course, recovering the dragon's treasure is just an added bonus.  They have almost as much trouble and adventure just getting to the dragon as they do when they arrive.

The Kindle version of this book is Fantastic!  The pictures show up more clearly than they do in my paperback copy.  The table of contents is interactive and you can easily navigate between chapters using the 5 way controller.  Basically, this is one of those rare books that takes full advantage of the e-book medium.
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I've loved th  hobbit ever since I was  a child an  being able to read it again on my kindle is a joy. The story is well told and can drag anyone deep into a new land. I'd recommend this story to anyone.
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My father read the Hobbit to me as a bed time story when I was six.  I read the book for myself by the time I was eight.  My paperback copy fell apart with constant reading by the time I was a teen-ager.  I am so glad to have a permanent copy that will not fall apart, get lost and always remembers my place.  Next purchase - the LOTR trilogy and quite possibly the Silmarillion
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excellent book and I must recommend it to anyone who is a fan of fantasy. But I must also warn you that if you buy the kindle version there are a LOT of typos, "Faster" becomes "Easter", "get" becomes "oet" and so forth, it is not every page, but it is frequent enough to become rather distracting.
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Read The Hobbit as a teenager and loved it.  Read it again and loved it even more.  Kindle version has excerpts read by Tolkien himself and it was breathtaking to hear this master storyteller say the words the way they were meant to be read.
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Mort is one of my favourites in the Discworld series, but I don't recommend the Kindle version.  There are some tragic misspellings and formatting errors.
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To make it clear I want to say that my three stars are only for the kindle edition maps. I like maps when I read a book that involves traveling, but unfortunately in the kindle edition the use of the maps for The Hobbit  is not good! You can not make it larger and using the iPad you can not see it from the wright side. It always turns and is too small. When I tried to make it larger it just got blured. It is my only complain. I am otherwise a total admirer of J.R.R.Tolkien's books since 1991 and I have them in various editions. I love his history,because I see his stories as the History Of Middle Earth. I have read his books over and over again and I will read them many times more. They are my books for me. I usually read them when I feel stressed and I want to get away but cannot travel at the time. They take my mind off things.
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Caution: you will get sucked into this book. The kindle version provides all the goodness of the book without having to hold a cumbersome book. GRRM's books can get a little thick, so it's hard to read with one hand. The kindle edition fixes this problem.
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What can I say it's the hobbit - a fun read for younger readers no doubt, and still mostly fun for older readers. Good for anyone looking for a kindler gentler sort of story. I actually like this one much more than any of his others.
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A great translation to add to my library. Happy to have it on Kindle!  So glad to have this version available.
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i sent amazon this note:

i'm eager to purchase the kindle edition of the lord of the rings, but apparently there are numerous formatting issues and text dropouts, as has been reported around the net. i downloaded the sample and ran into problems even with that. for instance, at location 300, there is space between N and the rest of Numenorean which causes an incorrect break. at 221-229, "...a romance between Aragorn and E (MISSING TEXT HERE) that Tolkien wrote...". you will agree that it's particularly ironic that these errors occur in forwards describing how there have been problems with the text through the years!

anyway, please let me know when the kindle edition has been corrected, so i can go ahead and purchase it. i'm really looking forward to doing so.

update - 5/28/11
a couple of weeks ago i received an email from amazon informing me that the book had been republished with
corrections. there were instructions for getting a new copy. i checked a couple of problems from the previous
edition and they were fixed!
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What's so great about the Kindle Edition:
1.  The price is VERY reasonable, only $12.95 for the entire trilogy as I write this.  What a bargain- you are actually getting 3 separate, long books.
2.  Much more portable.  It's a real joy to carry my slender Kindle instead of the huge LOTR books, which are big even in paperback.

There is nothing more I could write that would add to what has been written about this outstanding trilogy.  Many rightfully claim it is the best set of books ever written, and I'm inclined to agree; it certainly is the best fantasy/mythology ever written.  Getting this in a Kindle version is a huge win for readers!
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The Kindle for Mac is good and there's no problem acquiring the books and reading them. The only complaint is that the Kindle books are often minimally formatted, so that it might be hard to distinguish the main text from a photo caption, or recognize a text inset, etc. But overall, very readable.
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A modern classic. I have the paperback version but since it was so big I never finished reading it. With the digital version I finally finished.  Now I want to reread "the hobbit".
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Great book, kindle version was fantastic, no goof ups of any kind.
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Love the book but Kindle edition forces you to buy Part 1 and Part 2 separately, like the paperback. Part 1 can be purchased by going to the author's website and clicking on the ebook link that takes you to Amazon. Part 1 has the same cover picture as the paperback (Sithi, not a sword). Part 2 is the kindle edition that's searchable on Amazon and the cover art shows the sword. Awesome story, just not sure why they split it up for Kindle and you have to pay double.
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I love the Hobbit!  It is great to have the Kindle version.  I just wish the maps were easier to read!  Also, when I turned the book to horizontal I would sometimes loose 3 lines.  I kept having to flip my book around to see if I was loosing some lines.  Even when I changed to a smaller font it didn't help.  YIKES!