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Kindle is Great, but Ebooks are a Disappointment
I love my Kindle, I really do. The device is fantastic, and would itself deserve five stars. However, a Kindle is entirely reliant upon the ebooks sold by Amazon, which seem to be unanimously plagued by errors. Of all the books I've purchased for my Kindle, all of them have numerous typos, misspelled words, formatting errors, etc. and some don't come with covers, chapters, or page-breaks. Kindle ebooks are simply not of a quality that you would find on the shelves at your local bookstore or library; some of these ebooks are actually older than revisions currently in print! The time and effort devoted to edit, proofread, and format paper books is just not afforded to ebooks, it would seem. Overall, these errors and poor formatting distract from the content of the books, and lead to a less enjoyable reading experience (the opposite of what I would have expected from a Kindle). Plus, it's frustrating to know that you spent money on a defective product. I would not buy a Kindle knowing what I know about ebooks today. And this saddens me; Kindle has so much potential, but Amazon needs to demand that the publishers increase the quality of their ebook versions, and provide a method by which customers can leave reviews specifically on Kindle-edition books, rather than a book title in general.
November 2010 · Unknown · verified purchase
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