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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2

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Compared to the first volume of the Kindle edition of this series, Volume 2 is unreadable in its current format. Previous people have commented on the ridiculous footnotes that aren't even Gibbon; this version doesn't even have bold chapter breaks, so it just all comes across as gibberish. I'm going to have to find a hard copy; at least Volume 3 appears to be back to the normal formatting...

This is terribly frustrating, as the edition of this volume is so much more careless than the other five. The text is frequently interrupted by footnotes and other distractions, so much so that one gives up after the second paragraph. I wonder what it would take to correct this and give us a clean edition.

The first volume I downloaded was wonderful and original. The shock I had when reading this was great, as some Christian bisop uses this to argue with a dead author and interrups constantly. BAD and ANNOYING

This is false advertising. It is SOME of Gibbon's text interrupted by supposed numerous footnotes that were not written by Gibbon but are in reality commentaries by "christian zealots" who disagree with Gibbon. Some of the supposed footnotes/commentaries are all in Latin. It is not the book Gibbon wrote, nor is it what I thought I was downloading. If I wanted a commentary on Gibbon, I would have bought one. The intolerant, hysterical side of Christianity that Gibbon describes is alive and well here.