Tom Swift Sr. 25 Book Collection [CD-ROM]

Victor Appleton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 23, 1999

Books number 1 throught 25 in the original Tom Swift series.
Includes
Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle
Tom Swift and His Motor Boat
Tom Swift and His Airship
Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
Tom Swift and His Wireless Message
Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers
Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice
Tom Swift and His Sky Racer
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle
Tom Swift in the City of Gold
Tom Swift and His Air Glider
Tom Swift in Captivity
Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera
Tom Swift and His Giant Search Light
Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon
Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone
Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel
Tom Swift in the Land of Wonder
Tom Swift and His War Tank
Tom Swift and His Air Scout
Tom Swift and His Undersea Search
Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book is in Electronic Paperback Format. If you view this book on any of the computer systems below, it will look like a book. Simple to run, no program to install. Just put the CD in your CDROM drive and start reading. The simple easy to use interface is child tested at pre-school levels.

Windows 3.11, Windows/95, Windows/98, OS/2 and MacIntosh and Linux with Windows Emulation.

Includes Quiet Vision's Dynamic Index. the abilty to build a index for any set of characters or words.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 5000 pages
• Publisher: Quiet Vision (August 23, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 1576461432
• ISBN-13: 978-1576461433
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,304,859 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely worth the price, November 22, 2008

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Melissa Gann (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tom Swift Collection (With easy click Table of Contents) (Kindle Edition)

While the books may now be available for free in the public domain (see the Gutenberg Project), this edition for the Kindle is well worth the cost for the formatting. I downloaded one of the books for free from Project Gutenberg and the formatting was all over the place on my Kindle. I then went and downloaded a sample of this version on my Kindle, and there is just no comparison for ease of reading. Sometimes what you get for free is not worth the price.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do buy this book!, December 7, 1999

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An engineer (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tom Swift Sr. 25 Book Collection (CD-ROM)

It is great to be ablle to buy 25 books for $2.00 each. With the Tom Swift out of print, the only other way would cost me over $250 for poor quality books.

The interface on the CD is simple enough for my six year to understand.

Overall a great buy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Picture of a different time, May 12, 2010

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Edward R. Boyhan "Ed Boyhan" (Port Saint Lucie, Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tom Swift Collection (With easy click Table of Contents) (Kindle Edition)

I'm about 80% through these. These were mostly read by my father when he was a child in the 20s and 30s. The first full book I ever read was one of these. My grandmother was watching me one Saturday afternoon (I was about 8), and I was ansty. She tossed one of these at me saying: "your father read these, why don't you give it a try". I read it, and a couple of others, but soon switched to the Tom Swift Jr series which were less dated for my childhood (in the 50s).

The series started in 1910 and went till about 1940. Only the first 25 are in the public domain. I'm reading them more to understand the background picture of everyday life during the years 1910-1925 -- particularly the use of everyday technology: cars, planes, phones, electric lights, movies, etc. Some of the idioms/slang are interesting/dated. Spelling is interesting also: gasolene instead of gasoline; builded instead of built; speeded instead of sped; etc. Some terms seem quite odd: autoist instead of motorist; mechanician instead of mechanic.

Be warned the racial stereotyping is quite obvious, and offensive by today's standards. Less obvious is the view of women: Tom Swift has a girfriend, she's quite pretty, but she's such a wimpy wendy that I think most today would find her hard to take.

Kindle formatting is adequate (a few errors); it helps to read with wikipedia list of titles, orig pub dates, and cover images to make some of the inventions more clear.