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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
The ratings for the ASB at Amazon are not all that good. This might be a good opportunity to impress upon people who don't know it, not to trust ratings when there aren't very many raters or reviewers who gave them! They just aren't going to be reliable. There are a slew of editions of the ASB at GoodReads, it was going to be hard to figure out which one was the one that you posted. No matter, they're all very highly rated, especially for GoodReads, whose raters are, shall we say, not usually as charitable with their ratings as those at Amazon. |
I was surprised at the low Amazon ratings, but it seems that people that rated it poorly were upset by the formatting. I downloaded the sample and it didn't even have a working table of contents.
I ran
kindlegen on the epub and other than some wonky drop caps (which is a problem I've had with kindlegen in the past), everything seemed to work fine, including the table of contents. I didn't try it, but I seem to recall that Calibre does a better job with the drop caps.
I don't know what B&H did to mess up the Kindle version, but if you convert your epub to a Kindle file, you'll probably have a better experience than buying the one from Amazon.
As far as the editions go, I have a paper copy and several epubs (B&N updates the download whenever the publisher updates the file and I usually keep old ones for comparison). As far as I can tell, all of them have the same content. The only difference is that the ebook uses a slightly newer version of the HCSB text than the printed version that I have.