Avoid Kindle version of Doctorow's "City of God"

Gideon · 04-23-2009, 09:55 PM

Just picked this up ( http://www.amazon.com/City-of-God-eb...0534338&sr=1-6)

Editing is rough... mainly in terms of paragraphs as there is no indents or lines between paragraphs so reading more than a few pages gets a little like reading a Henry James novel.

May not be a big problem for some of you, but I found it pretty much unreadable.

whitearrow · 04-23-2009, 11:19 PM

There's now a master list of books with formatting problems, which you can find here:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45493

Unfortunately, it's been moved to a different forum.

catsittingstill · 04-25-2009, 01:19 AM

Doesn't Cory Doctorow generally make his books available as DRM-free e-books? I got _Little Brother_ that way, and a bunch of his short stories. You might check and see if _City of God_ is available from him--it may not have the formatting problem, plus it's DRM-free! Win-win.

Donnageddon · 04-25-2009, 02:59 AM

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pdurrant · 04-25-2009, 06:54 AM

This is by E. L. Doctorow, not Cory Doctorow

Quote:

Originally Posted by catsittingstill

Doesn't Cory Doctorow generally make his books available as DRM-free e-books? I got _Little Brother_ that way, and a bunch of his short stories. You might check and see if _City of God_ is available from him--it may not have the formatting problem, plus it's DRM-free! Win-win.

catsittingstill · 04-25-2009, 12:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdurrant

This is by E. L. Doctorow, not Cory Doctorow

Oh, oops. My bad.

Gideon · 04-25-2009, 05:01 PM

I did the same thing.. someone said "Doctorow's City of God" and I went to the site... couldn't for the life of me figure out why Cory didn't have it up.

And then I figured it out.

04-23-2009, 09:55 PM	#1
Gideon Wearer of Pants Posts: 1,050 Karma: 7634 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norman, OK Device: Amazon Kindle DX / iPhone	Avoid Kindle version of Doctorow's "City of God" Just picked this up ( http://www.amazon.com/City-of-God-eb...0534338&sr=1-6) Editing is rough... mainly in terms of paragraphs as there is no indents or lines between paragraphs so reading more than a few pages gets a little like reading a Henry James novel. May not be a big problem for some of you, but I found it pretty much unreadable.

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04-23-2009, 11:19 PM	#2
whitearrow Guru Posts: 808 Karma: 2260766 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Kindle Oasis 2	There's now a master list of books with formatting problems, which you can find here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45493 Unfortunately, it's been moved to a different forum.

04-25-2009, 01:19 AM	#3
catsittingstill Guru Posts: 643 Karma: 551634 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kindle 1.0.8, iPod Touch, Kindle Keyboard	Doesn't Cory Doctorow generally make his books available as DRM-free e-books? I got _Little Brother_ that way, and a bunch of his short stories. You might check and see if _City of God_ is available from him--it may not have the formatting problem, plus it's DRM-free! Win-win.

04-25-2009, 02:59 AM	#4
Donnageddon Now you lishen here... Posts: 2,494 Karma: 479498 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Seattle-ish Device: Sony PRS-650. Kobo Touch, Kindle Fire	.......

04-25-2009, 05:01 PM	#7
Gideon Wearer of Pants Posts: 1,050 Karma: 7634 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norman, OK Device: Amazon Kindle DX / iPhone	I did the same thing.. someone said "Doctorow's City of God" and I went to the site... couldn't for the life of me figure out why Cory didn't have it up. And then I figured it out.

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