Review: A very impressive collection of Jules Verne's work
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2012
It was impossible to not be at least somewhat familiar with the names Jules Verne when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, with his stories being made into blockbuster movies like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. That spurred me to read several of his novels, but in those days a half-century ago, many of Verne's books were not in print (at least not in English), and in any case, it would have cost a small fortune to purchase the 33 works that are included in this Kindle edition. It's worth mentioning that thousands of classics of literature have been available in the public domain for free in digital format for a number of years, but many of these were poorly formatted and had few of the features that ebook readers have come to expect.This is an impressive collection. With a total of 167,503 Kindle locations (a typical novel has about 5,000-6,000 locations), there's a lot of reading here. But more than the amount of reading, I was impressed with the care and attention to detail that went into the collection. The full-justified formatting was perfect on my old e-ink Kindle 3 and my Kindle Fire HD. All titles were hot-linked for ease of locating, and each title had hot-linked chapters.I don't know who did the translations of the novels and stories, but I read enough to see that the French-to-English translations read very well, with none of the stilted language you sometimes see in English translations.This collection is a great opportunity for Jules Verne fans to read his lesser known works, or for anyone not familiar with Verne to get introduced to his work.