A good introduction to ancient Greek, but problematic on Kindle
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Ancient Greek is an undeniably difficult language to learn, especially for some-one teaching themselves and new to Greek and/or language learning.  This book is a good introduction for people in this position; however, they will be much  better off with the hard copy text rather than the Kindle edition.  Although most of the text is fine and clear, there are issues with tables of verbs, nouns, etc, and with the reproduction of some letters.  The tables are inserted into the text as PDF or some similar format. The text is tiny on the Kindle screen, and the accents impossible to read.  Increasing the font size doesn't help - the tables remain the same. They can be expanded on Ipad, using the Kindle app, at the expense of a blurry (but readable)print.  I might say this problem isn't unique to this book - I have encountered the same issue in Easy French Step by Step and I suspect it happens in many language texts where tables are included.

The same thing also happens with the letter phi and sometimes with the accented vowels iota and upsilon.  They are minute in size and don't line up with the other letters.  Further, their size doesn't change with all the other letters when you increase the font size so that they become almost invisible with the larger fonts. Worse, initial phi can become detached from the rest of its word at the change of line, which can be very confusing.

This is a good book and frankly it deserves better than this rendering in Kindle.  Whoever is responsible should be ashamed of themselves.  If you know some Greek these issues may be less of a problem, but then you probably won't be using this book, which is aimed at absolute beginners. As mentioned above, the Ipad Kindle app version works better as the Ipad screen is larger and the tables are quite readable, but the problem with phi, iota and upsilon remains.  Buy the paper edition instead.
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!
2847949
This Kindle edition could have used someone to go over the text before it was put on the market.  Whether due to it being electronically scanned or not, there are sentences that just end mid-stream and others that seem to be missing periods and words that are misspelled.  Pieper's translator is excellent so I'm sure the problem lies elsewhere.  Still, all and all, it is a pretty good overview on Aquinas.
3606883
Reading kindle version on kindle fire:

As the cantos progress so do the typos. Throughout the 8th circle I've been referencing the paper back edition for corrections.

One Example:

Opening of Canto 25:
"When he had finished, the thief--to his disgracerai-
sed his hands with both fists . . ."

There seems to be about one or two of these per canto.

Please fix!
2514433
The content of this book is rich, full of insights to take your life in Christ to a new level; however this particular Kindle version is riddled with errors which makes reading it a frustrating experience. I downloaded another Kindle version of this same book, with the same results. I'm going to try to order an old print copy because I really want to read this without having to constantly interpret the numerous typographical mistakes.

UPDATE: Praise God - I finally found a reliable Kindle version of this book - please save your hard-earned cash and order the Classic Domain Publishing version - so far I have not come across a single typo - what a relief!
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When searching for a Kindle edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare it is less a question of which Folio the text was based on or who the final editor might be, it is all about formatting. This realization dawned on me during the course of the several frustrating hours I spent looking at samples from the first twenty collections listed in the Kindle store. Apparently, the text of plays presents some formidable formatting problems for the electronic readers and this was evident given the generally very poor quality of the editions that are available.  Proper formatting makes the play easier to read and may also help in understanding both the action and the interactions among the characters.  In many of the Kindle editions, it is difficult to identify the speaker, the transitions between scenes or acts are not distinct; these are problems that cannot be corrected by adjusting the font size on a computer or device. One problem that can be fixed by changing the font size is when the text appears as if written in paragraphs rather than in separate lines of iambic pentameter.  Many of the Kindle editions have no table of contents and a majority of those I viewed had no dramatis personae at the beginning of each play.  The quality of the formatting seems to be unrelated to cost; many free editions were superior to those costing from several up to twenty dollars. One exception to this general observation is the Oxford Edition which had the most pleasing formatting among those I viewed.

The Ultimate Collection suffers from many of the formatting problems mentioned above.  Although the speaker is identified clearly, the position on the line at which the speaker's name appears seems to vary almost randomly throughout the text. The transition from one scene to the next is so subtle as to be missed easily.  However, the edition does have a dramatis personae.

Many may be unmoved by the formatting problems I describe and, if that be the case, then there are a great number of acceptable Kindle editions from which to choose.  If one is bothered by poor formatting then one could invest almost thirty dollars in the Oxford edition. Other alternatives would be to use either of two excellent web archives of the collected works [...] but of course one would need to be online.  One can download Shakespeare plays from [...] after having registered with the site. Finally, there is an excellent free Shakeaspeare App that gives one full access the complete works, in addition to excellent formatting, on the iPad and iPhone.
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There are plenty of other helpful reviews on the content of this book, of which I have little more to add other than my agreement with their positive comments.  However, there's very little in the way of reviews of the Kindle version of this book, which I thought I would now add.

Two things to say about the Kindle edition:

1) It reads very much like an OCR scanned version of the original book, but with very little subsequent proof-reading/editing.  When you read the Kindle book, you will have no difficulty in reading the words on the page (letter-for-letter, they're all correct), but you will struggle a bit with incorrect formatting.

This is most obvious when the author quotes Hudson Taylor's words for himself.  I imagine in the original printed form, Hudson Taylor's words would have been written with indented paragraphs to delineate them from the author's own words.  In the Kindle edition, this indentation is missed, so what you read is the authors words, Hudson Taylor's words, then the author's words again, with no actual quotation marks or paragraph indentation to indicate whose words are whose.

2) This is the original, unrevised edition of the book "Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret" that was originally published in 1932.  Subsequently, the language of the book reflects the language of that era, and is more difficult to read for modern contemporary readers.  There have been been multiple other reprints/editions of the book that have subsequently been released under different publishers, some with fancy forewards added in.  But the version I would recommend is the one edited by Gregg Lewis, which was authorised by the Overseas Mission Fellowship (the mission organisation that Hudson Taylor founded) and updated the book's language to reflect a more modern and readable tone.

Sadly, despite the Gregg Lewis revised edition being over two decades old (being first published in 1990), as far as I'm aware there's no Kindle edition available for it yet, so you'll have to look to paperback/hardback to find that edition.  If you find the Amazon page for the Gregg Lewis edition of the book, then click "Kindle Edition", it takes you here, which is misleading as these are clearly different books.

For the reasons stated above, I can only really give the Kindle edition 3 stars, rather than the 5 I otherwise would have awarded it had the above issues been addressed.
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It's a good thing Kindle includes an easily accessible dictionary. The author's affectation for the longest and most obscure words possible makes for a difficult read. In fact some of his words aren't even in Kindle's dictionary. I call this an affectation because his grammar is inconsistent: sometimes "neither...nor" but other times "neither...or." I finished it but found most other Kindle Unlimited mysteries more enjoyable.
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I really enjoyed working through this Greek grammar.  Perhaps what sets it apart from other approaches I've seen is that it drives the student almost immediately into the text.  The unit-by-unit vocabulary revolves around the passage in question, and not so much the usual approach of most grammars, namely to focus on vocabulary that occurs most frequently in the entirety of the New Testament.  The drawback with this approach is that sometimes students are interacting with concepts that they haven't learned yet within the text (e.g., an infinitive in exercise 10 on page 182).  But this can also be a boon because students are already somewhat aware of these concepts when they learn about them in more detail later in their studies.  The only real negative that I have found with the work is that it is in definite need of an editorial revision.  Here are a list of errors I've found:

147- "present active participle" should be "aorist active participle"
168 - "ton thelema" in exercise 5 should be "to thelema"
174 - "ou estin" in exercise 4 should be "ouk estin"
187 - misleading definition of "prin"
205 - exercise numbers 4&22, 9&15, 13&25 are all the same.
230 - "agape" is missing the smooth breathing mark
243 - "patros" in exercise 12 should be "pater"
245 - "tithesi" as the PAI-3S is missing the movable nu

I'm certain that there are probably a few more that could be found by better Greek students than myself.  But overall, these errors are minimal.  I would still recommend this work for anyone who wants a basic familiarity with the Greek text of the New Testament.
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The preface begins, "Unfamiliar vocabulary proves to be an enduring challenge for students of New Testament Greek."  Very true IMO.

Also a challenge is that accessing a computer loaded with original language software that contains electronic lexicons [i.e., like BibleWorks] is not always practical, nor even possible.

And let's face it, who hasn't succumbed to the temptation of getting bogged down in a software's "library" of resources.  This interrupts reading, simply reading the text. Reading gets interrupted.  I hate it when that happens.

So sometimes you've gotta go with a lexicon that's a book.  Which book?  A book well thought out with the "reader" in mind; such as, "A New Reader's Lexicon of The Greek New Testament [NRL]."

The type is incredibly easy on the eyes.  The contextual definitions are consulted from the most current lexical resources [primarily BDAG 3rd Edition], thus trustworthy.

"Having the NRL opented next to a copy of the Greek New Testament solves the problem of rare [unfamiliar] vocabulary and enables the student to translate [read] without interruption while unlocking the meaning of the text." (Also from the premise, bracketed information mine)
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I like this book a lot. It is an ideal text for second year Greek students who want to pursue the language further. It is very well organised, covers all the important topics, and provides many examples to assist learning. The website of the book provides further resources (including answer keys to exercises, and language charts etc) to assist students who may be going through the book as a self learning exercise. I found this book more reader/user friendly compared with Wallace text (Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics which I think is more suited as a reference).

There is a small problem if you use the Kindle version. I found the characters in bold in printed text sometimes do not distinguish clearly on my Kindle paperwhite. I checked the same texts on my iPad and Android tablet and they are fine. I hope Amazon can rectify this problem in future release.
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This is a very good/informative book. I ordered the kindle version and enjoyed it all the way to the glossary. The glossary in my digital version is cut off on the left side so that the first letter of every definition is missing. Changing the type size and the words per line did not solve this problem. Some may fire back with other suggestions, but the point is, for the price of this material I should not have run into such a terrible problem. To have all the definitions missing the first letter is unforgivable in a study material.
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A useful and interesting book on Jung and Native American, specifically Sioux, traditions. However, as someone using the book for research, I found the kindle edition frustrating! There is also a print edition of the book which of the time of writing, is not linked to the kindle edition.

This book is essentially an academic book and contains many footnotes and endnotes, for commentaries and quotation sources. However, NONE of this supplementary content is linked to the main text. That is, there is no way to click on the footnote letter or number in the text that brings you to the relevant note and then allows you return to the text. Further, the hypertext table of contents (TOC), is a generic 'chapter one', 'chapter two' format, with out chapter titles, again unacceptable for an academic book. There is no easy way to find the actual TOC  where the chapters are named but not linked to the beginning of the chapter. It seems Spring publications did absolutely no kindle formatting on the book, just converted a PDF or other text file to kindle and didn't spend a little extra time making it more usable. I write from experience as I have converted a number of books that include footnotes  and endnotes to kindle format and know how easy it is to make the a digital format workable.

So, while I am enjoying reading the book, and find the content, both Deloria's own writing and Bernstein's  introduction, stimulating and well argued, the inability to easily check sources and read commentaries, is disappointing.

It loses stars in the rating because of this.
408184
The Greek text looks great, and seems to work well on my old kindle. The only problem I have is that the language is not set properly to Greek so that my Liddel and Scott Greek dictionary is able to recognize the words.
4270657
Although this is a fantastic dictionary, the kindle version is flawed. If you are planning to use this as a kindle dictionary, you'll often run into definitions that contain the word itself. Even in hard copy dictionary this is a bit of a pain, but nothing significant as you can quickly do one more lookup for the root word. A simple example, happiness entry in this dictionary is "the state of being happy". This is not going to work in kindle as it's not easy to perform secondary/tertiary lookup. I often find myself switching back to default in kindle (especially oxford american dictionary, which gets this right.)

I've always wondered, why and how dictionaries get away with this. Obviously the reason I am looking up a word is that I do not know what it means, so the definition should probably not include the very word itself.
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On the surface this seems like a great idea: take short passages in Greek from Thucydides massive work and annotate them for the middle or beginner student. In practice it doesnt work out that well. As a beginner-middle or middle-beginner I find the commentary only partially adequate for some of the very difficult passages presented, such as The Melian dialogue. The cost is also an issue with the Bryn Mawr commentaries [see: Thucydides Book 6 (Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Greek)] much cheaper, and Thucydides: Events at Pylos and Sphacteria by M. Campbell more complete with vocabulary for each section and an extensive discussion of Thucydides grammatical eccentricities, which are legendary. Of course you get a greater selection in Blasys work, which is nice, but at the expense of clarity and coherence as it is mostly short excerpts.
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At long last, Pliny Sr.'s complete Natural History is available on Kindle. This is simply the 1855 English translation which is available on Perseus, but there are several things that make this edition commendable. First of all, you're going to have a hard time pulling the entire book from Perseus yourself, so why not pick up this nice copy instead? Secondly, it preserves the well-done formatting while removing the footnotes which work poorly on Kindle. Finally, the complete Latin text is included, as well as two helpful biographies of Pliny, and the book has been made navigable with a table of contents. I like this Kindle publisher, and I may be buying from them again in the future.