Review: 22 Stories Scanned Into One Collection, Not Formatted for Optimum Kindle Fire and Other Devices Viewing, But Still Pretty Good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
A good collection of 22 (not all of them but a substantial amount) of Beatrix Potter's picture books, most titles now are over a hundred years old.  The books aren't formatted (contrary to what some reviewers claim who possibly haven't come across Kindle picture books that are yet) to take up the whole screen on your device, in portrait mode is the best way to view each book (landscape is a complete mess), most of the time the picture and its accompanying text will appear on the same page as it does in the physical copy picture books.  However occasionally the text flows over with a few lines on their own.  Some such as The Tale of Jeremy Fisher even have two pages scanned on the screen as an open book at times. The illustrations are obviously scanned with a high resolution scanner and are quite detailed and are the same as the ones in actual books, (the same size though, if you're unaware the physical books are smaller in size than your hand).  But unlike properly formatted Kindle picture books you can't change the image size by pressing on the image so the image fills the whole screen, nor the text to make it bigger.  This is a shame as I mentioned the hand drawn illustrations by Potter are quite detailed.  A lot of the pages only take up the top half or even third of your Kindle device's screen.  If this was formatted properly they would of course take up the whole screen.Some books illustrations have a border around them, some don't I'm guessing this is because whoever put this together didn't have books all from the one collection (possibly some of them aren't using the small sized physical books that the earlier books in this collection do).  Some of the covers are even a bit tatty looking with dog eared corners, but this does give a nice sort of feeling that you're looking at something old and historical.  Most books have colour illustrations but a few have black pen outline ones or even a mixture of both.Of course these stories are over a hundred years old and being so contain content such as a mouse getting whipped for bad behaviour and things like this, but this adds to the fun and creates opportunities for the differences today to the past with those you're reading to.