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Originally Posted by tomsem
I see what you mean about De Marque. They are Featured because the publisher is paying for placement, and Amazon makes that sort order the default. New Releases seems particularly useless because it is so inundated with such promotions, and there is no way to filter them out. Even if you could filter out the promoted books, there would still be too many to go through.
Personally I avoid freebie (public domain) classics like the plague. They’re often poorly formatted or have many typos. Amazon seems to have given up on weeding these out, but it is like whack a mole.
For Kindle Unlimited subscribers, I highly recommend AmazonClassics editions (go to advanced Search and type ‘AmazonClassics’ for Publisher. They are well formatted and include audiobook companions so you can listen with Audible or do immersion reading on the tablet/phone apps. There are only around 300 currently. For translated works, maybe you can find better translations, but you’ll pay for them.
Otherwise I’m partial to Delphi Complete Works of… books for public domain content. Again, they have consistent formatting and navigation, and they’re very affordable ($2.99 for everything the author wrote — in case you ever want to read it).
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I just got through reading Ben Hur, one of the free classics. It was well formatted, even having x-ray enabled, but you are right, it's hit and miss.