I've just downloaded the single volume Lord of the Rings from Fictionwise. It's now more highly compressed, 2.4MB instead of 2.8MB
There are five new images in the file, being the map of western middle earth - overview and four quarters. Still no pages from the book of Mazarbul, and they're still greyscale but in RGB JPEGs. Still at least the maps are there now.
Oddly enough, the quarters are different sizes, from 468x641 up to 601x823.
The text encoding has changed a lot. Oddly, it's still not standard throughout the text - sometimes named entities will be used, sometimes numeric entities, and sometimes the plain character.
Unfortunately, textual errors remain. In the "Note on the Text", Éowyn is truncated to just É. There's still a weird gamma character towards the end of "The King of the Golden Hall"
Some text has been fixed. Dúnedain no longer causes text to be dropped after the ú. "give him strength" has been added back in. They've added back in a missing accent on two instances of Dúnedain
There are some new errors. In the Appendicies, three instances of a curly apostrophe have changed to a straight apostrophe.
The index is now there, with page numbers to some paper version, with the advice to use the search feature of your ebook reader.
The Mobipocket Edition text at the end has changed from March 2009 to May 2009.
So - it's a lot better. But not perfect. And I haven't even read it yet - this is just from a comparison of the old and new text.
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Just spotted this on the Kindle Discussion Boards today:
http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/for...x3QZW1VBHRX5DA
a report that the sample for LOTR trilogy appears corrected. I wonder if original purchasers will be getting new downloads - as has happened for H2G2 and The Stand?
Or have to go through the rigamarole of returning & repurchasing? |