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I got The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and the Children of Hurin. Most of the typos are the clear result of poorly proofed optical scans of the books
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I know that the author is struggling with the eReader version, and a fix to that is on the way. However, reading this thread, there are a lot of negative comments overall - I hope because happy customers are reading the books themselves!
I just wanted to give a strong counter view for newcomers to this site. I have bought (for the n-th time) The Hobbit and the combined trilogy in ePub format for my Sony reader. They are simply brilliant - really, really well done.
The images are fine, save the maps and family trees which are hard to read. I use Adobe Digital Editions to read those - then they are great. All the footnotes work perfectly, all the appendices are there, which is fantastic. I am missing the complete maps of Middle Earth and Gondor, and I hope this is an oversight, and will be fixed soon. We all need to mail Harper Collins!
But the clincher for me is this. Just over a year ago, I bought a cheap trilogy paperback on a whim at Heathrow. I had a long trip, several flights, I fancied reading it again, and I did read Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. I have been stuck on the Return of the King for ages, because the single volume is too big for shoving in my backpack for daily use. Now it's just another few megs on my reader - i.e. nothing
Couldn't be happier, and it looks as if Harper Collins are going to release everything over time. Good thinking - they are going to make a packet - and with quality like this they deserve to.
amjb