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Hollow Man · 12-07-2016, 01:57 PM

Sometimes downloading an eBook can be downright frustrating!

For whatever reason, I was never assigned to read any Dickens in school, so thought I'd finally spend time and read some. I noticed that there are two free versions of David Copperfield on Amazon (for my Kindle). As detailed in one of the threads on the Kindle forums, one of them doesn't do page numbers right for new devices, so I tried the other. That one does, but I noticed that it's missing the important formatting (i.e. italics. The sentence in question even mentions the fact that the character is putting emphasis on a word, but without the italics, the reader is all, "Huh?").

After the two free ones, there are limitless numbers of versions of David Copperfield available on Amazon for 99 cents. I've looked at the samples for a lot of them, and every single one seems to be missing the italics.

Has anyone else experienced this type of frustration? What do you do about it? I can't look at the reviews on Amazon, because they lump all of them into one mass review section, so you can't see which edition (both paper and electronic) people are even reviewing! Free or a dollar is great, but I'd be willing to pay a few bucks just to get an edition that has italics where it's supposed to.

-HM

12-07-2016, 01:57 PM	#1
Hollow Man Evangelist Posts: 410 Karma: 2000000 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Connecticut Device: Kindle Colorsoft, Oasis, Keyboard; iPhone 13 Pro, Air	How difficult is it to find a good version of David Copperfield? Sometimes downloading an eBook can be downright frustrating! For whatever reason, I was never assigned to read any Dickens in school, so thought I'd finally spend time and read some. I noticed that there are two free versions of David Copperfield on Amazon (for my Kindle). As detailed in one of the threads on the Kindle forums, one of them doesn't do page numbers right for new devices, so I tried the other. That one does, but I noticed that it's missing the important formatting (i.e. italics. The sentence in question even mentions the fact that the character is putting emphasis on a word, but without the italics, the reader is all, "Huh?"). After the two free ones, there are limitless numbers of versions of David Copperfield available on Amazon for 99 cents. I've looked at the samples for a lot of them, and every single one seems to be missing the italics. Has anyone else experienced this type of frustration? What do you do about it? I can't look at the reviews on Amazon, because they lump all of them into one mass review section, so you can't see which edition (both paper and electronic) people are even reviewing! Free or a dollar is great, but I'd be willing to pay a few bucks just to get an edition that has italics where it's supposed to. -HM Last edited by Hollow Man; 12-07-2016 at 02:00 PM.