Review: Kindle Master Edition - the best Alice Kindle choice
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2011
This Kindle edition is the BEST EXCELLENT choice - 5 stars. 5 stars is also for the original books.  I sampled many Alice in Wonderland and all the Through the Looking Glass books I could find available (at Amazon and Gutenberg org - though today I discovered one I'm sorry I missed before - This One). I believe I found that the best available editions, if you want both, are:This Master EditionThe Complete Alice in Wonderland (Kindle Master Editions)which I missed before (likely because I was concentrating on Through the Looking Glass, which has far fewer editions, and then pursuing the 'matching' Alice in Wonderlands).  Today the price is .89 (and worth a good bit more than that in my opinion) and I have now bought it.  It is very well formatted and has even more Alice writings (beyond Wonderland and Looking Glass) as well as essays and historical info and other 'add-ons'.  He has all the illustrations from Tenniel and additional ones from Holliday and Carroll (I think he should consider adding Rackham's, too). There is a TOC which links to each book and other sections.  I would like to see in future additions an improved TOC - I would suggest that the link to each book takes one to a book-specific TOC with chapter links.  I would also love to see, either in a TOC form, or (maybe better?) in an index form, links to the illustrations and the poems as well.The BLTC at 1.79Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (BLTC Press Edition)- this edition is very well formatted with all the Tenniel illustrations that I recall and is the first one I purchased myself.The Bompacrazy at .99Alice in Wonderland (Illustrated)orAlice's Adventures in Wonderland (Illustrated)(these two appear to be exactly the same from the samples as both have the 'blotted out' picture of the Drink Me tag): this is almost as good a choice, though not quite as well formatted. The sample has a Rackham illustration (and there may be more) as well as the many Tenniel, though, which is a plus.The free Gutenberg org versions - lacked the improved linking and formatting, but there are various illustrated editions; may be worth it to you if .99 is too much or you are looking for something other than Tenniel.I did see a kindle version of an 'Original First Edition' Alice which appears to be illustrated by Arthur Rackham - in case you are looking for that one instead of the better known John Tenniel version.Alice In Wonderland - Original First Edition Version Published For Kindle - Lewis CarrollThat edition has no Tenniel illustrations in the sample; also the text seems to be abridged (or just maybe an earlier version?) and the formatting is poor.  Note that the picture of Alice looking at the Cheshire Cat in a tree that appears on this linked product page is not the cover that appears on the downloaded sample; the cover that does appear is of Alice walking with the Duchess and looks like this kindle book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass- now for more typical Amazon mis-linked craziness, this latter edition has Tenniel illustrations, but beware that they are very small thumbnails and enlarge to very poor quality.  I do not recommend either of these editions.  The Rackham is available at Gutenberg for free.As many others have said, the basic Kindle edition is a very poor choice, and most others also lack the illustrations.  Thank goodness for samples.Re Through the Looking Glass, it was the chess board appearing in the BLTC sample (and not in the BompaCrazy sample) that finalized my choice in their favor (before finding the Master).  Here are the BLTC and BompaCrazy links:Through the Looking Glass- BLTCThrough the Looking Glass (Illustrated)- BompaCrazyI found no others that came up in my Looking Glass search that contained illustrations worth looking at, though I did not sample all that might have come up with an Alice search.I hope this review helps you find your best choice far more quickly than I did.