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Unfortunately the Kindle editions have a couple of (minor) formatting issues, at least for the copy of Book 1 that I have):
- KF8 has broken drop-caps (it drops too far down)
- the first 5 chapters left-justify the image at the start of each chapter, the rest center justify the image
- the first 5 chapters apply a different paragraph style to the first paragraph than the rest of the chapters.
Since the copy is 'personalized', Pottermore has no way to correct these errors. If they had sent one copy to amazon, that each customer got a copy of, instead of hundreds of thousands of 'personalized' copies, they could easily have fixed this when this was brought to their attention, and customers could have downloaded the update at their convenience. Now we're all stuck with a broken Kindle edition.
Interestingly if you take the watermarked, 'DRM-free' ePub and run it through kindlegen, the same errors result. I guess we can therefore fix the problem ourselves, but we should not have to. Pottermore was not sweating the details.
[fjtorres, the other difference is that personal documents do not participate in Popular Highlights, but these do. Everything you purchase from Amazon is 'personal' in that you don't automatically get updates/corrections—amazon stores a specific version/bag of bits with your account. This just happens to be a 'version' that only you have.]
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