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Well, tomorrow's the day, and I'm so excited to be getting my Kindle!!
I've already ordered Leslie's FAQ book, and then I started looking for My First Kindle Book (I'm seeing the FAQ as a required manual, so it doesn't count!), and had a hard time deciding. I wanted it to be something special... something I already knew I would enjoy.... perhaps a Kindle version of a much-read and worn DTB... and it turned out that the three or four at the top of my list aren't available
So then I tried a different approach, and looked for classics that I'd been meaning to re-read. Found lots of those, ordered ten. (Had to set a limit somewhere...)
But one thing completely puzzles me.
For many books, there are multiple different Kindle versions available. For foreign-language books this is sometimes due to the existence of different translations. Or sometimes books have been revised or annotated. But often it seems that there can't possibly be any difference, and yet there are several versions listed, with different prices and different Kindle-publication dates. Kind of like when Amazon offers the same DTB book in hardback, paperback, quality paperback, large-print, etc. editions.... but how can there be any differences in Kindle editions?
To further confuse me, a couple of times two versions, priced differently, linked to the same posted review, which included things like comments on the formatting. So if the formatting is also the same, why are there multiple versions? In one case a book's price varied from free to about $ 6, but I couldn't tell what the differences were.... surely there's something to explain the price difference?
I realize that I could download samples of five different versions and look at each to see whether there's a difference that might justify paying a little bit more. But that seems like a complicated and quite time-consuming way to find out each time. Does anybody know what's behind the multiple versions of books? I have the nagging feeling that just clicking on the cheapest one may not be the best thing to do until I find out more about this.
I've already ordered Leslie's FAQ book, and then I started looking for My First Kindle Book (I'm seeing the FAQ as a required manual, so it doesn't count!), and had a hard time deciding. I wanted it to be something special... something I already knew I would enjoy.... perhaps a Kindle version of a much-read and worn DTB... and it turned out that the three or four at the top of my list aren't available
So then I tried a different approach, and looked for classics that I'd been meaning to re-read. Found lots of those, ordered ten. (Had to set a limit somewhere...)
But one thing completely puzzles me.
For many books, there are multiple different Kindle versions available. For foreign-language books this is sometimes due to the existence of different translations. Or sometimes books have been revised or annotated. But often it seems that there can't possibly be any difference, and yet there are several versions listed, with different prices and different Kindle-publication dates. Kind of like when Amazon offers the same DTB book in hardback, paperback, quality paperback, large-print, etc. editions.... but how can there be any differences in Kindle editions?
To further confuse me, a couple of times two versions, priced differently, linked to the same posted review, which included things like comments on the formatting. So if the formatting is also the same, why are there multiple versions? In one case a book's price varied from free to about $ 6, but I couldn't tell what the differences were.... surely there's something to explain the price difference?
I realize that I could download samples of five different versions and look at each to see whether there's a difference that might justify paying a little bit more. But that seems like a complicated and quite time-consuming way to find out each time. Does anybody know what's behind the multiple versions of books? I have the nagging feeling that just clicking on the cheapest one may not be the best thing to do until I find out more about this.