Thanks barryem and dordale. I've used gutenberg before but not had much luck with good ebook quality. The texts may be good (and that's a great thing!) but the ones I've tried were sort of plops of text with no formatting, links, etc. It's been years though since my last try with gutenberg. As for the MR library, I did mention it in my post above. It's a great resource that I've used a lot but the quality can vary widely depending on uploader. Neither gutenberg ebooks nor MR ebooks work with the Kindle features I like.
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
A few thoughts that may, or may not, be of help.
Try searching for the book you want at the publishers website for the exact edition you're looking for (such as a specific translation) instead of at Amazon. Often they link to their version of the ebook at Amazon (if available) and it will take you right to where you want to be. Penguin for Penguin Classics, Signet Classics, etc.. Unfortunately I don't think Delphi links to Amazon (even though they sell there) since they also sell direct downloads in Mobi format.
Also Amazon has an advanced Kindle book search where you may have some luck searching by both title and publisher (the publisher field can be picky about having just the right name).
https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sv_ksto...ode=2735182011
I've noticed that a fair amount of the "higher end" versions of classics (annotated, lengthy intro's, etc.) don't necessarily seem to have ebook editions. Likely due to the publisher not wanting to compete with all of the free to $1.99 versions flooding most ebook stores and available from dozens of other sources online. |
Thanks, AnemicOak. It's a shame the higher end versions of classics don't all have the ebook editions, but I can't imagine the cost of transferring it to ebook wouldn't be made up eventually in sales since after transfer there's basically no cost for them.
I'll give the advanced Kindle search a try; I didn't know about it. As for checking the publishers' websites directly, that seems like it could be onerous too when I don't have a particular publisher in mind on a book, but it's an idea.
I should've mentioned this in the first post but what I've been doing off and on is trying to search the Kindle store with a title plus the name of a publisher, for example 'wuthering heights penguin' and then switching it out with each I can think of, e.g. 'wuthering heights vintage', 'wuthering heights random', 'wuthering heights oxford', etc. It's tedious though and I feel like perhaps I might miss some nice edition from a publisher I forgot so I may end up doing that as well as going through the entire list of Kindle books for a title.
The only other trick I have is sorting by price highest to lowest since most 'higher end' versions aren't 99 cents but this is imperfect since some are, so again I may end up going through the entire list this way as well. I call these tricks but neither really works all that well to make it easier to find the nicer editions hence this thread looking for some better ways.