Review: Best currently available
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2012
I love to read the works of Charles Dickens. His earthy descriptions, involved plots, and character depictions enthrall me. Therefore, over the years I have owned several sets of his works, both in hardcover and ebook formats, prior to encountering this one. This Delphi edition is a five star quality product, nicely formatted and complete, but the amount of supplemental material ABOUT Dickens (in addition to the actual works BY Dickens) sure eats up a lot of Kindle memory.I am a fan of the Delphi Classics series and I own quite a few of them, but therein lies my dilemma. I like to keep my various complete and collected works sets of significant authors ON my Kindle (rather than archived in the cloud) so that I have immediate and instant access to their content; this enables me to easily and quickly browse, sample, read and re-read the works of notable authors and also refer to highighted, favorite passages within them and notations I have made about them. But I have reached a point where the memory on my Kindle is approaching its limit. Humongous sets (like this) that provide virtually EVERYTHING an author has ever written (the great and re-readable as well as the less-than-good and not particularly worthwhile) and much supplemental material (sometimes of dubious value), have become less appealing to me. Nevertheless, this Delphi edition DOES offer quality (as well as sheer quantity), and apart from the issue of Kindle memory utilization, it is undoubtedly the finest and most comprehensive Dickens collection available at the present time.