I’ve gotten several phone calls today from my mom. She really likes several P.T. Deutermann books. She’s had the paperbacks ten years. Every year or two she’ll reread those six books. I’ve read them several times myself.
So this time she got several of them in Kindle format. Hoping to throw out the paperbacks. She started reading Hunting Season on her kindle. First thing she found was a chapter missing. She even compared it to her paperback. She called me several times as she found stuff missing. A botched kindle transfer? Editing by the author? :dubious: I’d vote a botched kindle transfer.
Unfortunately she had already bought several other P.T. Deutermann kindle books. She’ll read them in the next few days and see if they are the same as paperback. I’ll post here with an update in a few days.
I’ve bought several Dick Francis books and reread them on kindle. So far I haven’t noticed anything different from my worn paperback copies.
I went to the Amazon page to post a warning about Hunting Season kindle version. The comments are attached to the book. Not the version. Dozens of glowing comments because it is one of Deutermann’s best works.
One negative comment about the kindle version will get lost in that sea of compliments.
Doesn’t seem to be a way to report screwed up kindle book transfers. Assuming of course, the author didn’t rip out entire chapters of his book.
Call up Amazon customer service, tell them the Kindle version is missing a chapter and they should refund you at least (and if they get enough complaints, pull or fix the book).
It’s an annoying feature at Amazon. They combine all of the reviews of different versions of a work into one common set of reviews. I’ve seen it in DVD reviews, where you might read about extra features without knowing they’re only on the Special Edition or Blu Ray version unless the reviewer specifically mentions that fact.
This. I’ve gotten Kindle books that for one reason or another, didn’t work well on the Kindle, mostly because the charts and illustrations just don’t come through very well. Amazon has always allowed me to return them with no hassle at all.
She even compared it to her paperback. She called me several times as she found stuff missing. A botched kindle transfer? Editing by the author? :dubious: I’d vote a botched kindle transfer.