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As You Like It (Shakespeare Made Easy)

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Discouraging. The Kindle edition is useless. It is not readable. The side-by-side display of the paperback edition is not maintained in the Kindle edition. In my Kindle, the original text and the modern translation flow at random. There is no indication to distinguish them. I could not even read a complete scene in either version. It is a shame.

I've used books from this series before. But I've used them as printed books, in which the original text and modern English text was placed on facing pages. Somehow I thought it would work the same way in the Kindle edition. It doesn't. In this Kindle edition, the printed book's page breaks are not maintained, so all the text simply flows to fit the device display upon which you're viewing it. You can't look at the original text and the modern "translation" side-by-side (which is the primary point of this book), nor can you read through an original text scene then proceed to that same scene in modern English text (which might have been a poor substitute for the original side-by-side intention). And you can't read through the entire play in either original text or modern translation. All the text simply flows, with sections of original text followed by sections of translated text in what feels like a random pattern (but I suspect the original printed book's page breaks may have been maintained, but not indicated, in the Kindle edition). The result is a book that is neither readable nor useful. Someone should have looked at it before offering it for sale. It is an embarrassment to the publisher and the reseller (Amazon). Very discouraging.

It's a great study aid for my students. Helps to free up the inner actor inside!