A Kindle edition of this great feat of scholarship is very welcome indeed--the conversion of the text, however, leaves *a lot* to be desired.
The criteria for a good Kindle version of an academic text are easy to enumerate: All footnotes and endnotes must be hyperlinked; all images must have high-res versions; the original paragraph/heading structure must *unequivocally* be reproduced in terms of the Kindle's resources (e.g., if a certain type of heading is indicated in the original text by a different typeface, this cannot be reproduced on the Kindle; thus, other means must be employed, e.g., indentation, larger/smaller, bold or italic text, etc.); the text shouldn't impose any sort of paragraph alignment (*especially* not 'justified'), and let the device do its own typesetting. (Left on its own, the Kindle 'justifies' text very well.)
I have been very impressed by some other releases for the Kindle, from Cambridge University Press--they were very well adapted to the device's particular resources and limitations. THIS volume, however, is almost certainly the direct conversion of an ePub, into Mobipocket format. The text forces its own text alignment and *typeface*; not only are there occasional errors (missing paragraph breaks), but *none* of the endnotes have been hyperlinked, and neither is there *any indication* of print-version pagination (the Kindle *can* do this). One wonders how the *superb* papers in this volume are to be cited, from the Kindle version--by 'location' number? Kindle 'location's, however, are nowhere to be found in the print edition.
These are extremely frustrating omissions. While it's encouraging to see more professional titles coming to the Kindle, academic publishers *still* don't seem to take the medium seriously enough.
ISBN-13: 978-0521656962
ISBN-10: 0521656966
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