Customer Reviews

Snowflakes: Creative Paper Cutouts

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If you, like many, enjoy a good "Christmas in July" celebration, this is the perfect book for creating some inexpensive holiday decorations. 75 patterns! 2 pages of instructions. Fun, fun, fun.

It's exactly what I expected as I bought the book after reading oher customers' review. The designs are beautiful and quite simple too. Having a sharp pair of scissors is the only tool you require.

I would strongly recommend this book.

First let me say that this review is specifically of the Kindle edition.

I'd been eyeing this book for awhile now, but couldn't quite justify the price in my extremely limited budget. Then I noticed that they had the Kindle edition avilable for much a price I could make work ($3.82 when I purchased). So I bought it.

The book itself deserves 5 stars. The instructions are easy to understand, the designs are beautiful. It is very well done.

Unfortunately, on my 3rd generation Kindle, it just doesn't display well. The diagrams for the instructions are all lumped in at the end. If text and diagrams had to be on seperate "pages" I wish they could have at least been interspersed so I didn't have to jump back and forth between locations.

Also, I didn't think to take into account that the patterns (which are designed for standard 8 1/2 x 11 paper) would be smaller on my Kindle screen. So there's some size adjusting you need to do in order to make them work with regular paper, and it's rather a pain. Plus getting to where you can copy the pattern onto the paper (unless you just want to eyeball the design) is also difficult. Yes, this is partly my fault for not thinking of it before purchasing, but it would have been nice to see the kindle pages adjusted. After all, they changed the instruction diagrams for the Kindle.

Having not tried the new Kindles, I don't know how well they handle graphics. Perhaps this book would display better on the Kindle Fire or the new Kindle Touch.

Bottom line, it is well worth the extra money for the paperback book: Snowflakes: Creative Paper Cutouts. It just doesn't translate to the Kindle well.