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The price was right

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2020

Great collection to have accessible right on your iPhone or iPad. Easy to read and fun to re-read. This collection was offered for free

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Anon Customer111

Malware? Too big? incompatible?

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2021

I purchased all 3 of this set today. I was not having any significant issues with my Kindle. I purchased these 3 while sitting at the computer and then went to go into my Kindle Paperwhite reader. The 3 books were automatically queued for download already, but the next part is the bad part! My reader started going into a restart loop. If I remove the 3 downloads (they did finally complere) the restart loop stops. If I put them back on the reader, the loop starts up again right away. With them removed I checked storage management., Without those, I have more than half of the capacity remaining free 19 or so GB out of 27. So, I don't know how big these 3 books really are but I'd like to think that just 3 books are not taking up 19 GB. I'll probably be attempting to return these books ASAP. Another comment I'd is that after at least one of the restarts, i received an error about "error; unable to open application". But again, the restarts and the errors stopped when I removed these books!

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The price was right

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2020

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Great collection to have accessible right on your iPhone or iPad. Easy to read and fun to re-read. This collection was offered for free

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Anon Customer111

Malware? Too big? incompatible?

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2021

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Causes multiple reboots with gigantic sizes of all three volumes

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2021

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With two different versions of Paperwhite:
Multiple reboots to download each volume. Then reboots within reading also. I even used a reset, empty Paperwhite and downloaded the three volumes, nothing else in the Paperwhite! These volumes are enormous and seem to be just too big for the devices. Can't handle indexing or whatever.
I own several LARGE compilations, e.g., The Complete Harvard Classics, and have never had a moment's problem. I've never had anything cause a reboot in ten years of using Kindles. Until now.

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Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2022

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Can't decide whether to give 5 stars or 1. The CONTENT is terrific, which warrants 5 stars. The problem is the book is so large that both my Kindle Paperlights (including the new one I just bought) struggle to index it. Lots of painful restarts. Finally gave up and deleted it from both Paperlights. Works OK using the Kindle app on devices with more powerful processors, such as my smartphone or my tablet.

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Navigation is tricky

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2020

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The collection is great, but navigation is cumbersome. It's been great, though - we've been reading stories aloud in the evenings.

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John Froemke

Reading classic reading.

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2021

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I do like to read good classic literature. It has to be a filler in my day. Been too busy to really catch it up.

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John Powers

Book crashes Paperwhite 2021 and 2019

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2022

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Something is wrong with this digital download. It makes the reader reboot and hangup. Happening on my 2021 and 2019 model.

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Sonja Ma

Bugs seem to be fixed

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2022

I can confirm that the "continuous reboot" bug is not there anymore. Or at least it is not happening with my Kindle Paperwhite.
This is a well formatted collection of many classic books. The Table of Contents comes in 2 stages. The first table of contents you select the author. This takes you to the author's section which has a second table of contents that takes you to the particular book. From there some books have another table of contents that takes you to individual chapters.
Thanks to the previous reviewers who found the bug which, I'm sure, prompted the seller to come up with a fix.

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MsPinkieBoo7872

Old friends

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2022

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Love the price and with Kindle it's like taking a library wherever I go.

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Anders Martinson

A great collection at a great price. No technical issues encountered.

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2021

I'm using an iPad with the Kindle app, and all 3 volumes in this set downloaded smoothly in well under a minute. Any issues others have had seem to have been addressed or at the very least are such that they can be overcome.

This is another great collection of public domain literature at minimal cost. You really can't go wrong with it.

With so much content the navigation between and even within the works is not going to be what you're used to for single volume editions. In particular the dropdown table of contents is essentially useless, but there is navigation within the text that does the job. Here you will want to use the main title of contents page within the book to select an author. From there you can link to that author's works and then from within that list go to the table of contents for a particular work. Once you've started in a particular title, you'll want to use bookmarks at the end of a reading session to pick up where you left off.

You've got dozens of works within the same Kindle title, so you're not going to have the same navigation experience as a one book title, but the adjustment is achievable, and for all the content you get for the price, you can't go wrong with this collection.

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