Alas, the publishers' eBook departments don't seem to have any respect for poetry. I imagine this department to be a one-man operation who inputs text into a software black box and whatever comes out is called an eBook without any further thought. Sigh.
I noticed, using mobipocket reader, that the lines of the poems are center-aligned instead of being left-justified, not like the print edition at all. Fortunately, converting from mobi to ePub using calibre fixes the problem. There is also no way of knowing from the original file which lines should be indented, as required by some of the poems.
The eBook is also missing the all-important index of first lines, which the print edition has.
Sigh, this just tells me that publishers still are not taking eBooks seriously. This is not the first time I've seen
sloppy eBook formatting in
eBooks I've paid for--in fact, it's pretty common.
