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Originally Posted by megacoupe
If Sony's verse selections are as slapped together as that example of A Midsummer Night's Dream, it may not be worth it.
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No, it's not usually like that. Shakespeare is especially difficult to format because he makes use of both prose and verse in his plays. The second pic is more representative of what poetry usually looks like at Connect: each verse separated from the rest as if the poem consisted of single-versed stanzas. A horrible choice, in my opinion, but you can get used to it. I downloaded other plays from Ibsen or Chekhov and they seem to be ok, at least at first sight (those plays are only in prose, I think). And novels are also readable: the margins are too wide, the font is rather on the small size, and there are those unnecesary breaks between paragraphs, but they are not horrible.
My two cents:
1. Don't get classics when notes are important to understand the text. I haven't seen a single note in all the classics I've downloaded from Connect (50).
2. Skip Shakespeare. I don't know if the rest of his plays are as badly formatted as
A Midsummer Night's Dream, but honestly, I didn't feel like trying. Again, in order to really enjoy Shakespeare, I think notes are important, especially if you are reading him for the first time.
3. If you see a classic here, get it here. Believe me, the editions from MobileRead offer a more enjoyable reading experience.
Some Connect editions that I recommend, not because I think they are good editions but because I haven't seen them in here yet:
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe,
Heart of Darkness,
Bartleby the Scrivener,
Don Quixote (I think only the first book has been posted here), plays by Chekhov and Ibsen,
The Aeneid...
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Originally Posted by LaughingVulcan
here is a (very poorly) reduced screenshot
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If you save the original screeshot first and reduce it afterwards, you get better results (I assume you are using Paint or a program like that).