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Re: Verne in Kindle

From: Alex Kirstukas <infernalnonsense~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:15:21 +0000
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Hi all,

Bill's point is hugely important: all of the translations used for these Kindle/Nook omnibi are in the public domain and can be downloaded for free all over the Internet. (They're all derived from the free Verne texts at Project Gutenberg, gutenberg.org.) If you do end up paying for them, none of the money goes to the people who actually did the work (many of them members of this forum!).

So, you're much better off downloading your Vernes one at a time, free of charge - which also allows you to discriminate between good and bad translations, sort your books more easily, and save your money for the occasional modern Verne translation available in digital formats.

Alex


On Jan 13, 2012, at 5:34 AM, "wbutcher" <wbutcher~at~netvigator.com> wrote:

> Or, presumably, get them for free from the web.
>
> Bill
>
> From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf Of Patrick Sheffield
> Sent: 13 January 2012 12:50
> To: Jules Verne Forum
> Subject: Re: Verne in Kindle
>
> Just an FYI - with the proper tools (plugins for Calibre, for one), you can purchase the e-books for one reader, remove the DRM, and read them in another reader…
>
> Patrick
>
> On Jan 12, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Raymond Macon wrote:
>
>
> Hello Art and other Vernians,
>
> Since we’re on the subject of e-book editions of Verne’s works, would anyone care to give recommendations of the best translations available to us Nook users? I’d be much obliged.
>
> Raymond
>
> From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf Of aevans2 tds.net
> Sent: Thursday, 12 January, 2012 19:29
> To: Jules Verne Forum
> Subject: Verne in Kindle
>
> Dear Vernian friends,
>
> I have been asked which Kindle e-book Verne collections I would recommend. I have not examined all of them, but there are substantial differences among them, not only in the quality of the translations but also in the quality of the navigation, the typography, and the "extras" such as intros and illustrations. Of the few that I looked at, none was 100% the best in all ways. But some were definitely better than others.
>
> Considering only the quality of the translations included, no single collection featured only good translations. Most collections had a mixture of both good and bad. But I would encourage everyone to avoid purchasing those products containing the very worst Verne translations.
>
> For example:
> This one contains the horrific "Hardwigg" version of Journey to the Center of the Earth, which in my opinion automatically disqualifies it from consideration:
> The Essential Jules Verne Collection - 25 Books (Bob Henry, illustrator, publisher?, 2/18/11) - “Illustrated with 10 unique illustrations.” $1.99 (9465 KB)
>
> These three contain the very poor Mercier version of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas:
> Jules Verne Collection (BompaCrazy.com, 6/18/08) - $0.99 (4145 KB)
> The Essential Jules Verne Collection - 25 Books (Bob Henry, illustrator, publisher?, 2/18/11) - “Illustrated with 10 unique illustrations.” $1.99 (9465 KB)
> Works of Jules Verne (Mobi Collected Works, MobileReference, 9/22/07) - $4.79 (11397 KB)
>
> These two are much better because they both contain Walter's excellent (Gutenberg) translation of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas:
> The Collected Works of Jules Verne: 36 Novels and Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition, Halcyon Classics, 7/9/09) - $2.99 (7443 KB)
> The Works of Jules Verne - 27 Books (Raleigh St. Clair Books, 6/3/09) - $1.99 (9259 KB)
>
> Has anyone else examined the other ebook Verne collections? Do you have any recommendations?
>
> Cordially,
> Art
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Received on Fri 13 Jan 2012 - 13:15:30 IST

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