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Originally Posted by AlexBell
I don't think the books, as I remember them, are really a series - there's not much plot or character development. It may be that the publisher has chosen the most popular ones to release first.
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That's certainly plausible (if a bit annoying on their part).
As a public service to those above who indicated an interest in getting the ebooks when they became available, I thought I'd make a few comments on the general quality of the first book (from Amazon -- Velmon Books Pty Ltd, July 7, 2005)...
All paragraphs are indented AND there's a space (the equivalent of one line) between all paragraphs.
It was created and/or converted with calibre. It looks like it might have been an earlier version as I noticed the fairly rare occurrence of a backward closing quote (the punctuation was "smartened") when it followed an mdash character/entity. I haven't noticed that in more recent implementations of calibre's "smarten" routines. Still, there were maybe three occurrences of the reversed closing quote in the entire book.
I've picked up on two typos in the first half of the book (they don't appear to be your typical "scanno" errors so it's possible they were in the print version, too).
One broken paragraph encountered in the first half.
I have no print version to compare to, but I'm assuming the original contained distinct "scene-breaks." If so, those visual breaks are missing in the ebook--making for some awkward reading at times.
I've seen far, far worse--and at $4.99... I'm not feeling all that trampled on, oppressed, or taken advantage of.