Customer Reviews

Classic Poetry: Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, in a single file, improved 8/18/2010

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The formatting on the 3rd generation Kindle is terrible, lines are cut off in the wrong places. This is mostly just a problem in the biographical portions. When viewed on Kindle for PC everything looks fine, but on the actual device its difficult to read. Tried changing settings but nothing helped.

The previous reviewer needed to take the type face down to the next to lowest setting to get the proper formating for the lines in this book. The poetry is great, and the typeface is very readable, even in the smaller font. As always, Shelley does not disappoint.

The table of contents does not highlight but if you go to the cover, you will find the table of contents with applicable links to each long poem; other poems are listed by year with the year being linkable. All of Shelley's translations are in one linked section, and another linked section has his juvenalia. This is the Oxford collection of P.B. Shelley's poetical works, as noted in its preface, and so, contains not only the works in Mary Shelley's collection, but others as well.

The reason for 4 stars is not all poems have individual links which makes getting to some of them a little more difficult that one would like.

The formatting is atrocious - no one would want to read this on a Kindle unless they played with font etc. for a very long time to get it to look acceptable (and presumably ending up with text that is either too big or too small). Download the sample to see what I mean.