rhondabrwn
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Joined: 9/29/2004 From: Snowflake, Arizona Status: offline
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I've had a chance to spend several hours reviewing Volume I of "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" and it is incredible! Everything is there... every map, every article, every order of battle and notes. Pictures and maps are nicely hyperlinked and indexed to you can jump out of view a map and then return back to where you were reading. Everything is very clear and readable. If this was an OCR scan to get the text, it's the best I've ever seen. In my reading I didn't find a single spelling error... amazing. Each of the volumes is close to a 30 Megabyte download, that tells you a lot about how much content you are getting for $2.99 a volume. The credits indicate that this is an Amazon publication... not something from a publishing house or one of those free book scan sites. One of my concerns about e-books was the often excessive pricing by the big Publishing houses. There were, of course, law suits over the pricing and Amazon was on the defensive about how they weren't setting the high prices... they were forced into it. If this production of "Battles and Leaders" is, indeed, an in house Amazon production, it bodes very well for being able to get long out of print classics in a good quality, affordable e-book. Happy Days
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Love & Peace, Far Dareis Mai My old Piczo site seems to be gone, so no more Navajo Nation pics :(
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