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The Diamond Lens; With Other Stories

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I too downloaded the 80 cent version of this book and had my Kindle crash. It totally locked up. I had assumed that Amazon would have fixed the problem after the previous person's critique, but obviously they did not. I advise you to stay away from this edition.

I downloaded the free version of this book and it crashed my Kindle. I had to delete it and try a higher-priced version (which worked fine).

The story is one of the oldest pieces of real science fiction (1858). An obsessed amateur scientist steals a diamond (and murders its owner) in order to make a lens for a super-powerful microscope; his experiment succeeds but he is driven mad by what he discovers. If you have a taste for 19th century literature, it is a pretty good read. O'Brien's "What Was It?" is also proto-science fiction and is even better.

Why did I download this file that had warnings posted on it? Because I didn't believe the two previous reviews that claimed this book (booklet really - only 20 pages or so) crashed their Kindles. I had downloaded hundreds of free books successfully; why should this one be any different? So I went for it. Immediately after downloading The Diamond Lens, my Kindle crashed. I rebooted it but it kept crashing and rebooting itself, like it had an infection it couldn't shake off. I read the story, which is GOOD - but maybe not worth the hassle of this freebie OR the high price charged for the non-free version (depends what you're willing to pay for 20 pages). The continuous rebooting stopped only when I deleted the file from my Kindle. How could one little short story-sized file wreak such havoc? Does it have a virus or some other booby trap in it? I still don't know why, but I agree, this file is TROUBLE! Download at your own risk....