[Katsunami]

While I enjoy using my Kindle much more than my previous eReader, because it has a touch screen, and many more books are available, one pet peeve remains:

Many (most?) free eBooks are very badly formatted.

While I am not someone to often complain about free stuff, I can't help myself this time. Many eBooks contain spaces in places where they should not be (especially Gutenberg versions), so the text starts
to look
like this
which is of course
not very
readable,
the cover image is very bad or missing (Amazon), there often is no Table of Contents where there should have been one (Amazon, Gutenberg), or chapter headings look like normal text instead of being bold or larger (Amazon).

While not always perfect, the books from MobileRead are often the best of the bunch.

I ripped all of my MP3 files myself from my original CD's, tagged them myself, and put the cover image into them myself, and with regard to freely available eBooks, I wonder if I should start doing so myself, starting out with Gutenberg's TXT or HTML files... but I know I will never have the time for that -and- properly read the books too.

Sorry to complain, but I had to vent a moment there. I just hope that bought eBooks, especially the more expensive ones, will be better...