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Comprehensive and Easy Navigation
While I have yet to make sure that every single page from the physical collection is present and accounted for, my cursory searching and errant prodding have yet to yield any issues in terms of fidelity with the original. This digital version of the collection gives you immediate access to so many of the classic works of philosophy, fiction, theology, history, and political science that serve as the foundation of "western" thought and civilization. If you want to familiarize yourself with the works included, here is the wiki page for this collection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics . It should be noted again that this is a collection of "western" thought, and so includes limited perspective from regions of the world outside of Europe and North America. As another disclaimer: many of these works were originally written in a language other than english, and there are likely better translations out there for many of them. The translations that I have looked at so far run from sufficient to well done. There may certainly be some classical works of western thought that you may look for that are not found in this collection, but they will be few and far between (and that issue will likely never arise for anyone doing anything but the most esoteric reading of classic texts).
Perhaps most importantly, this digital version is eminently useful. Every volume has a link in the table of contents. That link brings you to a table of contents for that volume, which contains links for the individual works in the volume. Those links then bring you to a table of contents for the individual works of the volume, complete with links for each section therein. Perhaps equally importantly, every table of contents has a link that returns you to mother table of contents from which you came- making navigating to specific works and then back much easier than many other digital collections allow, in a way that does not require one to use the "Go To" feature of the Kindle.
If you are interested in having access to nearly all of the essential classics of "western" civilization for a ridiculously cheap price and with a surprising ease of navigation, I recommend this collection without reservation.
June 2020 · Kindle Store · verified purchase