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I bought the Humble bundle despite the bad formatting and lack of TOCs because I am a fan of Bester and Zelazny, they are DRM-free, and I'll be able to get rid of some print books now. I've only looked at the epubs on a PC from Calibre, I don't know if I'll have different opinions when reading them on my Nook Simple Touch. Here are very quick notes on the contents:
Venus Prime 1: No cover, has TOC, looks well formatted.
The Stars My Destination: No TOC, the "ASCII art" towards the end of the book was only so-so rendered.
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth: No cover, has TOC, some fonts look too light.
Dragonworld: has cover, TOC, some of the illustrations are only so-so.
The Deceivers: has cover, TOC, the afterward is missing from the TOC.
Zelazny's Chaos and Amber: Missing TOC.
Wild Cards: Death Draws Five: Missing TOC, chapter breaks. Has a list of chapters at the very end which might help if one wants to fix the formatting in Sigil or something.
The Demolished Man: Has TOC, looks OK, but HUGE chapter titles.
Zelazny's To Rule in Amber: Missing TOS, otherwise OK, I think.
Damnation Alley: Has TOC with a single chapter. Has some sort of sigil that may be chapter breaks, I'll have to check my print copy to see what's up.
Wild Cards: Deuces Down: Missing TOC, either no splits or weird splits between stories, some messed up lyrics (with page splits).
Robot Dreams: has TOC, cover, looks OK.
The Computer Connection: has TOC, cover, looks OK, link to chapter goes to blank page.
Robot Visions: has TOC, cover, interior illustrations that look good.
Roger Zelazny's Shadows of Amber: Has TOC, cover.
The Last Defender of Camelot: Has TOC, cover.
Eye of Cat is actually both Isle of the Dead and Eye of Cat (as I sort of expected): No cover, TOC just links to start of each book.
Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber: I already had this one, it had no TOC, so I'm guessing the bundled version didn't either.
I don't consider missing covers a show stopper, but I'd guess that I'd want to spend at least 10-15 minutes fixing some of these epubs. A lot of print books don't bother with TOCs either, especially when the chapters are just numbered.
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