Re: Kindle boxed set

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:26:19 -0400, "Evelyn C. Leeper"
<evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/14/25 11:51 AM, Jay Morris wrote:

Amazon has "Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds,
Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales: The War of the Worlds, Anthem,
Space Viking, The Conquest of America…" for $0.99. 28,442 pages. Comes
as one book.
 
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Can you say "public domain"?
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I suppose at only 99 cents it might be worth saving the effort of
downloading what you wanted from Project Gutenberg for free, but the
effort of trying to read something from it as a single book makes it
seem hardly worth it.

Depends on how it is organized.

If it has a TOC listing each book at the front, and each book has a
link at the end (or the start of the next book) back to the TOC, then
it might be useable. I might even skip the "list the titles and check
them off" route in that case.

But if it has a TOC listing each and every chapter in each and every
book, then it is likely to be much harder to use. A list of the titles
of the actual books might be very helpful so one at least has some
idea of what it contains.

But if the TOC is clearly a merger of several TOCs with duplicate
copies of some books, or if it has no TOC at all, or a TOC that has no
links back to it, then things can get very dicey [1].

I suppose, worse came to worse, one could go through it
screen-by-screen and Bookmark the start of each book. I haven't had to
do that yet, but who can say what the future holds?

[1] Thus, my Dumas omnibus turned out to have not only two copies of
/The Man in the Iron Mask/ but also an essay of the same title
presenting Dumas' theory of who he was (which can be discovered by
reading the novel, BTW/ -- part of a separate collection of essays on
various crimes, some quite interesting, others less so.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"