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Originally Posted by Skibble
Even though I don't have a Kindle, I do go to Amazon to see if there is a preview available for books I'm interested in purchasing. I must be interested in some obscure books, because there often isn't one. There aren't on other sites, either. So for those books, I do appreciate reviews that mention formatting errors.
I have also found that the preview is sometimes of the paper edition rather than the ebook. Not too helpful, since formatting mistakes seem to creep in during the conversion. But again, perhaps I am looking at obscure titles.
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Sorry. I should rephrase. When I said 'preview' I actually meant a 'sample'. If you have Kindle for PC or a similar free app, or an actual Kindle device, from Amazon, they can send you virtually any Kindle book (I've not come across a book not offering a sample) to the app or device of your choice. You aren't previewing a paper copy then! This is extremely useful as there are lots (unfortunately) of people who have uploaded terrible copies of public domain works; or, in some cases, they've actually gone and copied and pasted from Wikipedia and tried passing off their 'work' as some kind of textbook! By 'sampling' you can separate the wheat from the chaff, as it were.