The Kindle version is fatally flawed, orthographically. One ...
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The Kindle version is fatally flawed, orthographically. One example: "n" is used in the same sentence to represent  both the number n and the square root of n.
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This review is for the Kindle edition.

The translation is great although in some ways quirky, and the notes are brilliant. I'd give it 4 or 5 stars. But the Kindle edition has deficiencies that detract from the reading experience. I'd give it 1 star.

Problems:

Verse numbers in the psalms land sometimes at the beginning of the verse, sometimes at the end, even sometimes in the middle.

There are detailed and fascinating notes, organized by verse. But there are no links from the verse to the related note. So you have to page through from the verse to the note. Bad when the note discusses that psalm. Even worse when the note cross-references another psalm and you have to go to the table of contents to find that psalm.

By the way, the table of contents lists Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc. instead of the customary Psalm 1, Psalm 2, etc.

Also, the table of contents is one long list, so you have to scroll through 150 items to find a specific psalm. Other translations solve this in their Kindle versions by using columns.

I also have other Bible translations in Kindle editions which give a secondary level of contents: the verses. Here for a long psalm (such as 119) there's no way to find a specific verse other than to scroll through the whole psalm.

Talking of Psalm 119, as in most translations there are Hebrew letters to define each multi-verse section of the psalm. But similar to the formatting problem with the verse numbers, the Hebrew letters aren't at the start of the section; they just seem to randomly land somewhere close to the start, sometimes in the middle of a verse.

Also traditionally psalms are organized into 5 books. But the table of contents doesn't show the 5 books, even though the intro discusses them. So there's no easy way to link to say the beginning of book 2.

There are occasional English transliterations of the Hebrew in the notes. The Hebrew gutteral that is customarily transliterated as "ch" is instead shown as an h with a dot below it. That's a common alternative method. Except here the dot is even with the bottom of the other letters and the h is lifted above the other letters, requiring that the line spacing be greater for the line that contains that letter. Visually clumsy.

There is a lengthy and fascinating introduction to the psalms whose utility is severely diminished by a complete lack of links. So if the intro discusses a psalm, you have to find the table of contents, scroll through the long list, find the psalm, then find the verse.

I probably could come up with a few more examples of how bad the Kindle version is, but that's enough. As I said, I'd give it one star for the technical implementation of the Kindle format. If I had to do it over again, I'd buy the dead tree edition. While it has no links, it's far easier to flip around in a traditional book than in this severely limited Kindle edition.
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The content - introductory notes, translation - is great. This is one of my favourite adaptations of the Canterbury Tales into modern English.

The Kindle version, however, complete ruins the book. The printed version presents facing-page translation, which works great. The kindle version attempts to do that, having one 'page' after the other, not considering that due to the font-size adaptability, this doesn't work at all.
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First things first: the content is fine, and about what I've come to expect from Gardner Dozois.  If you like his other best-of-the-year collections, you'll like this one.

Unfortunately, the appearance of the text in the Kindle version is atrocious.  The AZW1 file seems to have been created from a bad optical scan.  In some places the look of the text is merely distracting--often it appears that every other word is bolded--while in other places things are so bad that you find yourself guessing at just what word you're reading.

I've bought a handful of Kindle books that came from scans.  Page turns tend to be a lot slower than with character-based files, and file sizes are much larger.  Neither of these deficiencies is a deal-killer.  But crummy-looking text on an electronic reader is unacceptable, and does nothing to promote the worthiness of the Kindle or the book in question.
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This review is of the Kindle edition of Chats on Royal Copenhagen Porcelain. The book itself is excellent, but the quality of this Kindle edition is terrible. It was machine OCR'd without a shred of human editing. Page headers and footnotes appear randomly in the text. Every paragraph has a mispelling, and every page has gibberish on it. Parts of the text are rendered illegible.
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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.
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Kindle version is almost useless because of broken formatting.
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This is the A V Miller translation of Hegel's masterpiece.  However Amazon does not tell prospective purchasers that the Kindle version is an abridgment of the print version, that omits whole sections of the book.  While the paperback version has problems of its own--- it falls apart as several have already noted---at least the buyer has or at least starts out with the whole book. However Amazon is not responsible for the poor binding in the paper edition.  On the other hand, Amazon's marketing of the Kindle edition is misleading and dishonest because Amazon withholds important information: that the Kindle edition is an abridgment, and does not indicate what sections of the book have been omitted.  That's too bad, because it undercuts one of the strongest arguments for the Kindle and e-readers for academic purposes, namely, large heavy books like Hegel's Science of Logic, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion are not easy to lug, but become easily transportable via the Kindle. Why not raise the price a bit and sell the entire book in Kindle format?
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This edition has introductory pages or paragraphs that are nearly unreadable. Letters are overlapping each other, and KINDLE's type fixer has no affect.
The rest of the story is fine.
The parts I can read make up a good and fast-moving story, until you come to the garbled-text blockades.
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I have to echo the other comments from Kindle users. I downloaded the sample truly wanting to read this on the Kindle. Every three or four lines the sentences run together (making the dictionary and wikipedia useless at times because the words are run together and the software doesn't recognize the mashed up word). Combine that with the typographical errors (a dropped word here or there, as in "Comprhension" in the TOC), the strange placements of the figures, which are important to the text, and the double line space between the paragraphs and the kindle edition becomes more of a nuisance. I'm going to skip the kindle version and buy a dead-tree version.

Okay, here's my update. I've now got the hardcover edition and a whole new set of a problems. In the hardcover edition, the typesize is unusually small, making the book very difficult to read. The figures and images are great now (much better than on the Kindle edition). This book appears to be the classic case of a good book poorly served by the publisher. The author's words and ideas are very intriguing. Unfortunately, those ideas have been poorly presented in kindle and in print.
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The reading of the Kindle version is highly disturbed by a number of typographical errors, typically uncorrected scanning mistakes. Just a few  examples  "Fie" for "He"; "excess of  loyally" for "excess of loyalty"; "layer alter layer" for "layer after layer"; "He would have gladly lain down" for  "He would have gladly laid down" and many many more: unbearable.
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The Kindle version has incorrect representation of the Vietnamese type-set. While the hardcopy is devoid of this problem. The hardcopy is superb, although the kindle version is absolutely useless as the typeset is incorrect.
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DO NOT buy the Kindle edition until it is re-issued after the copy readers have cleaned it up and it has been re-typed and re-issued.

The Introduction reads like this: if sentences were spaghetti, the 'sketti has been briefly put thru a blender (there are some long pieces left) and thrown on some sheets of paper, photographed, and assembled with whaterver printing process would work with a Kindle ebook, and sold.

Paragraphs are not apparent. Some sentence fragments are in superscript type. Many "sentences" are fragments from ?. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to put the pieces together- especially given that the material seems to quite technical,and maybe? criptic.

I managed to read (NOT comprend) some distance into the first  Technical? chapter. It seems slightly less scrambled, but still unreadable.

My qualifications to make these criticisms include that I have a Masters and ABD degrees in a technical Natural Resources field, and am very interested in the subject.

Please Fix it!! And withdraw it from sale until it is!
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The Kindle version is messed up. The page turning is the wrong direction. Amazon has been having this problem more and more with manga. You'll be reading a series, then bang a random volume is all disordered and reversed from all the others.
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This translation is an important achievement in cultural history.  I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in progressive Christianity.

That being said, I normally do not comment about quality control issues with Kindle books, however the Kindle version I received (I have a paper copy too) was so enormously defective I felt I should warn others.  The text is completely centered (no left justification  at all), blocks of words are run together with no spaces.  Spaces are in the middle of words splitting them up. Capitalization of proper names is applied at random.  There are also occasional typos that do not fit into any of those categories.  Google books gets all of this right.
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My review is quite short: The book is great (I'm about 20% of the way through), but the Kindle version is riddled with typos. Words are strung together without spaces in between, punctuation marks are missing, there are line breaks in weird places. It's driving my bonkers! Rather get the paperback.
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My wife has the paper verison of this book. it's excellent. I ordered Kindle version based on the written copy and was EXTREMELY disappointed.

I want my money back, and apparently there is no way to get it back, even though Amazon controls what gets to my Kindle and has no reticence about snatching things back from others, like Orwell's 1984.

What's the problem with the Kindle version? The book is loaded with text tables. The publisher could not be bothered to have someone type them and lay them out for easy reading. Instad, they are scans that are shrunk so small, they are absolutely illegible.

You can change type size, but there's no way to magnify an embedded image with the Kindle. That makes many dozens of tables absolutely unreadable. Ever tried to read a book where most of the important details are in the tables and all you can see is the surrounding text?! Well, in this case, that's pretty much useless.

This is the very worst Kindle version I have ever seen. If this had been my first Kindle download, I'd have returned the Kindle in disappointment.