Review: Perfectly formatted & very best Poe ebook.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2013
There is no shortage of Edgar Allan Poe ebook collections available in the Kindle Store, but what sets this one apart is its excellent formatting, particularly of the poetry. Many other sets fail to properly display the poetry in the original stanzas and verse patterns; this one does it perfectly. The prose is equally well-formatted using traditional paragraph indention rather than space to distinguish paragraphs, and emphasized words are appropriately italicized. Clarifying notes are appended and in contrasting typefaces. The short quotation from Plato appearing at the onset of "Morella" actually appears (prior to its translation) in original Greek characters--not merely in English transliteration; compare other ebook editions to see how many--IF ANY--do that!  One TOC lists titles chronologically and another lists them alphabetically; both are convenient and active. Right/left clicking also permits back and forth movement between title content. Overall this is a very handsome and (insofar as I can detect) flawless ebook.Edgar Allan Poe certainly does not need me to explain either his greatness or his continued popularity; suffice it to say he is a great American author whose works truly deserve to be read, and I certainly enjoy reading and re-reading his numerous tales and poems. For that reason, I want a reasonably complete and well-formatted "keeper" copy for my Kindle--and this is it. (The numerous illustrations are a plus.)I obtained my copy when it was (remarkably) offered for free, but I would highly recommend this particular edition at any reasonable price over all others. As I said earlier, there is no shortage of Poe collections, but having purchased a few and sampled many, this is not only the very best, but the most perfect available in the Kindle Store.