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Feb—The Color Purple (2016)
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Is eBook formatting making this difficult for anyone?
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Leanne wrote: "I have to say, I'm working through this book and absolutely love it so far. It's working up to be a fast read.However, I got two separate ebooks and they're disasters. One makes no indication tha..."
I don't have this with my ebook, weird.
My nook book is great. No formatting issues and pretty clear
I believe many of the spelling errors are intentional as a lot of it is letters being written and accents being portrayed etc.
The spelling errors are intentional...the complete lack of formatting is not. Like...It said Dear God exactly one time. It wasn't clear until I looked at a physical copy that nearly the entire story was Celie writing letters to God
I didn't have any trouble either with the formatting, I read the book on my Kindle.
I finally gave up and bought the physical book! I'm enjoying it so much more now.
I don't have a problem with my Kindle edition. Did you get your version in the Kindle Store or it was from a specific editorial? I have downloaded books for free in the Store and the formatting is normally good.
Amanda wrote: "The spelling errors are intentional...the complete lack of formatting is not. Like...It said Dear God exactly one time. It wasn't clear until I looked at a physical copy that nearly the entire st..."
No judgement, but is it a legal copy? The official ebook of the Color Purple has Dear God, Dear Nettie, Dear Celie, or dear everything at the head of every section. (Source: I work at the ebook publisher and have access to all the versions.)
It's worth reading with all the different headings, because its shows the progression of the story and how Celie is develops from viewing God as a white man.
Im my digital version at the beginning of each letter to God, it is written "Dear God"...I hope you can finally enjoy the book now with your physical version!
Renata wrote: "Amanda wrote: "The spelling errors are intentional...the complete lack of formatting is not. Like...It said Dear God exactly one time. It wasn't clear until I looked at a physical copy that nearl..."
Heeeeeh they were maybe not the most legal copies. I was surprised though because normally pirated eBooks are just DRM stripped legal copies, so I assumed there was at least one legit copy out there.
The more I read the guiltier I felt not buying it. I'm glad I bought the book just to support the author.
what a shame, my ebook, bought on amazon, it doesn't have any problems and I payed it less than 3 euro.
Petit Chevalier wrote: "what a shame, my ebook, bought on amazon, it doesn't have any problems and I payed it less than 3 euro."yup I bought mine on amazon as well and there were no problems at all. however I had another version first which confused me too.
However, I got two separate ebooks and they're disasters. One makes no indication that these are letters to God--it's just prose. The other one has numbers as headings but the numbers end up all over the place in random places and I'm almost positive they're not in the right place. Then there's some spelling errors, which are expected in ebooks but make it difficult when the book is in dialect.