[Mike L]

Has anyone purchased any of the Mobi Reference collections from the Kindle store? These are collections of out-of-copyright works by specific authors or genres. Many of them have "huge collection" or "classic collection" in their names.

For example, there is Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Huge collection. (200+ Works) and Classic Mystery Collection - Crime, Suspense, Detective fiction. (100+ works). They typically cost $3.99 to $7.99.

My question concerns the formatting of these titles. In particular, do they have a proper table of contents and the normal sort of navigation? Or is each volume simply one long plain text file, with no ToC and no obvious breaks between the stories?

I recently bought a collection of PG Wodehouse stories -- not in this same series. It had no formatting at all -- headings and emphasised text was marked with underscores; the stories just ran together, with no page breaks or obvious titles; and there was no ToC. In fact, the only way of discovering which stories are present was to step through all the pages in turn.

I would like to buy some of the Mobi books mentioned above, but not if they follow the same pattern as the Wodehouse collection.

Thanks in advance for any advice.