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Tom Swift Sr. 25 Book Collection

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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.

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.

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.

After finding an ancient copy of "Tom Swift and his flying machine" in my fathers effects, I decided to see if it was available on the Kindle. To my amazement it was. I purchased the whole set. These books were written for youngsters early in the nineteen hundreds when there was an abundance of emerging technology that we now take for granted. Besides being just plain fun to read they present an interesting glimpse into how people in the twenties perceived these new fangled contraptions.

This is not a rip off of any other CDROM. The books were scanned and digitized from the originals. Each CD is produced to order that is why they are on CDR's. The demand for Tom Swift books does not support a production run of 1,000s of CDs. When we were unable to get unlabled CDR's for a period of time, we used the CompUSA ones.

Also the EPaper3.exe problem is in certain versions of W95 and W98 they can be solved by applying updates to W95. We worked for about two weeks doing what most W95 deveoper do, finding a programming way arround the problem. We have exchanged about a dozen CD's instead of requiring the user to update W95 like most vendors.

Just took this set on a business trip. It was great to have so much reading in so little a space. The case is the same size as a dvd case (I can't stand jewel case, they break all the time). And the uncut, unadbridged text is a real eye opener to the early 20th century.

The Tom Swift, Sr. books have always been in window into the early 20th century. It is entertaining to see how enginering and science have and have not followed the paths imagined. Also the books are an eye opener into our changing social attitutes.

E-books are said to be the wave of the future. It is nice to see an e-book that does not required a special reader. It was great to see Twain's Adam's Dairy and Eve's Diary with the full original illustrations.

TWMC, As a young preteen I loved the excitement that was contained within the binders of several Tom Swift Books that belonged to my father. I even had to ask the definition of the word valise as it was in one of the series . Eradicate too. Get rid of. AS my parents were entertaining guests, my father took the time to give me a definition at my age level. SUITCASE. Many a good night falling asleep and dreaming of the written adventures. This was in the early 70,s- late 60,s Mike

I found this collection while searching for Tom Swift, Jr. books by Victor Appleton II. The product appears to be advertised as a 17 book collection of those stories, but it is not. The cover shows Tom Swift Jr in space, but what you get is 27 books of the original Tom Swift collection by Victor Appleton. While those stories are wonderful in the writing, I already own most of them for my Kindle and didn't plan to purchase them a second time.

I just got the "Tom Swift Sr. 25 Book Set" CD ROM and This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."

I have tried it on several computers at work and at home and they all have the same error message.

This it the cheapest looking CD ROM I have ever come across. It is labeled with cheap homemade labels and the CD ROM is a COMPUSA blank disk.

I am asking for a refund for this product and strongly suggest that you do not buy it.