I'm trying to decide whether to buy the Kindle edition or the hardback edition of this book. The deciding factor is if the Kindle edition includes photos, like I believe the hardcover edition does. Can someone tell me this?

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Yaaresse You've probably already decided, but in case someone else needs to know, the photos are in the back of the Kindle edition. There are 35 photos in the Kindle edition. Most are very small and somewhat grainy, so you'll have to tap each on and enlarge it to really see much. (One of the few annoying flaws of e-books.) About a dozen are of some of the women from the book and often have one picture of them very young (teens) and one as an adult. There are maybe four that show sarcoma or other conditions and appear to be from medical journals. Five are of the professionals (lawyers and doctors). The rest are either candid shots from company outings, from the court proceedings, or from newspaper articles. All are well described in the text.

So I guess the answer depends on how important the pictures are to you. They're probably bigger and clearer in the print edition, but if easy access to footnotes are more important to you, you might want to go with the Kindle edition. because there are a LOT of footnotes.

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Carrie I listened to this book on audio and then did a Google search for some of the women's names. Photographs that had to have been included in the book (as they were well described) are easily found online. I probably didn't get to see all the photographs, but enough that I didn't miss the hard copy book.

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Kathlyn Terrible book. It was a story my husband and I really wanted to read as we are physicists specialising in medical physics: nuclear medicine, radiotherapy and radiation protection (hubs was even on the national emergency team for major incidents involving radiation).

We struggled on with the awful writing style but when it got to Moore's explanation of the physics we were horrified. She mixed up completely alpha, beta and gamma radiation; confused rays and particles and totally ommitted the very salient fact that radium, like samarium and plutonium, is a bone seeker. A five minute conversation with an expert would have clarified - hell, even five minutes on google would have left her better informed.

After that she lost any credibility at all. Audio book returned to library unfinished. After all those women went through and she couldn't even be bothered to try to get the most basic facts right.

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Leslie I am planning on listening to this in the audio version...is it worth a trip to the library to view the pictures before hand or after reading? Thanks.

And to Liz...I hope you learned your lesson not to review a book before you read it...you got quite the comment list. Very passionate readers on this site. I am looking forward to listening to this book while on an extended road trip. Happy reading to all!

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Jane Bowman Definitely get the book. Although there are pictures on Kindle, I can't even estimate the number of times I referred to the pictures, a first to keep everyone straight in my mind as I read their stories, and later to connect with them as victims and/or villians, depending on their places in history.

Far from a "poor me" book, this is a story of bravery and grace and tenacity under horrendous circumstances. To review a book before it's been read is a disservice to yourself and potential readers.

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Ethnea Ferguson The Kindle edition has photographs

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Michele I would not recommend reading this book via Kindle as I did. My issue isn't the photos, but there are so many footnotes I accidentally clicked on those several times when trying to simply read the next page and lost my place. Very annoying! Read in print!

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