Can’t find any problems with mine thankfully

My two copies seem to be perfect also.

It is worth mentioning if you do get an item that has defects, under the consumer laws of most countries you are entitled to either a replacement or a refund. You should contact the company that you bought the item from first and if they are unable to help you can contact the Publisher.

Looks very cheap on Kindle for those that use such things (I don't - I'm in the Kobo epub camp)

The late Stu wrote:

Looks very cheap on Kindle for those that use such things (I don't - I'm in the Kobo epub camp)

The Kindle version has a neat pop out for poems so if one wants a poem displayed on a single page without commentaries, there is a pop out arrow for that. Quite handy.

Some clarity on that. This works when a poem is across two pages, so that it will present on a single page, when one is down, hit the x, top right, and it returns to the point you were reading.

My UK HarperCollins set arrived just now, and I did a quick page-flip through all three volumes. Everything looks great, and I am looking forward to a deep dive read through with a physical copy. So much better than reading electronic for me, which works great for research but I do not find very pleasurable.

Urulókë wrote:

My UK HarperCollins set arrived just now, and I did a quick page-flip through all three volumes. Everything looks great, and I am looking forward to a deep dive read through with a physical copy. So much better than reading electronic for me, which works great for research but I do not find very pleasurable.

I've gone the other way (though if you had asked me a couple of years ago, I'd have had the opposite view) - I find the e-reader much more pleasant, just because I don't need such good lighting. I think now I use reading glasses and need really decent contrast, the Kobo wins for ease of reading. I still enjoy a physical book for nostalgia (and I'm using a third ed Hobbit to read to my boy for that very reason), but I have definitely been converted to the dark side. The one thing I like about a real book is it is often easier to flick through to find what you want when you broadly know where in the book a thing is, but can't remember any good search terms.

onthetrail wrote:

The late Stu wrote:

Looks very cheap on Kindle for those that use such things (I don't - I'm in the Kobo epub camp)

The Kindle version has a neat pop out for poems so if one wants a poem displayed on a single page without commentaries, there is a pop out arrow for that. Quite handy.

Some clarity on that. This works when a poem is across two pages, so that it will present on a single page, when one is down, hit the x, top right, and it returns to the point you were reading.

That's a neat feature - it's nice to be able to get extra behaviours with an e-book, rather than just being a straight render of the paper version.

I just received my copies today. So far everything looks fine. I haven't flipped through all the pages, but those that I have looked at look great. I randomly opened volume 1 to pg. 79 where the poem "Outside" starts. I have never heard of this poem and I don't know if it was published before, but I was blown away reading it. It has a bit of a Lovecraftian tone, which I appreciate, but of course with Tolkien's in my opinion superior use of language. Amazing what gems there are to discover in this publication!

Is £45 for the kindle a little steep ? Or am I just being a Scrooge ?