Keith HarrisonSIR GAWAIN & THE GREEN KNIGHT OWC : PB

Price charged is more than the original one.

Estou trabalhando em cima do mito e pegando diferentes referências. Este livro é rico em informações complementares que ajudam a entender não apenas a história, mas o contexto em que está inserida. O texto em si, na sua forma poėtica, não difere da tradução em português disponível em outros títulos da loja.

Like an earlier review, this one relates to the quality of the Kindle edition of this book. While the issue regarding `hyperlinks to the endnotes' (noted by the earlier reviewer) appears to have been resolved, there is a fundamental problem regarding the formatting of the text: as whole lines are either partially obscured at the bottom of the page, or they have only their top half visible (often only the masts of `h''s and `l''s of the bottom line are visible), so that effectively we have a supposedly excellent text ruined by sloppy, incompetent formatting.The issue of poor transformation of literary texts to Kindle formats is a common one, which is particularly evident with poetic texts:A common problem is one in which the text of a poem is inset from the left margin by well over a centimetre (or more, dependant on the font setting - given that the Kindle screen is only 6 inches in diameter, any loss of screen space is going to compromise the reading experience), leaving often a large part of one half of the Kindle screen blank. This ensures that a line of poetry is then spread over several lines, disrupting the appreciation of the verse, and making the reading experience extremely unpleasant.This is particularly evident in the Penguin Kindle edition of `Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene,' an expensive Kindle book, which, while it is sold as a Kindle product is actually (as I was informed by an Amazon operative) formatted for Computer screens and I Pads.The Penguin Kindle edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is formatted in a similarly clumsy manner, and makes just as unpleasant a reading experience.More often than not, it appears that the Cheapest or Free Kindle editions, are better formatted and much more readable than the more expensive editions - this is certainly the case with Kindle editions of Chaucer and Spenser.Surely if Amazon is marketing a product as available on Kindle, it should be formatted to be read correctly on that device; particularly given the cost of both the Kindle device and the book.If both publishers and Amazon wish to see literary texts such as these translated to Kindle, then they should have more than a basic grasp of the technological issues at stake and ensure maximum quality and accuracy of content. Otherwise Amazon's boast, that they wish to see every book made available on Kindle, is an empty one, in which quantity is given precedence over quality.Some other Amazon Kindle texts with formatting issues:Penguin Kindle: Spenser, The Faerie Queene (not formatted properly for Kindle)Oxford World Classics Kindle: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Serious formatting errors)Penguin Kindle: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (not formatted properly for Kindle)Penguin Kindle: Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (some of the hyperlinks don't work)Penguin Kindle: Joyce, Ulysses (riddled with embarrassing textual errors; the Kindle text has subsequently disappeared from Amazon listings - I wonder why!)

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1. This is not a comment on the original text of Sir Gawain nor on the translation. See above 4 -5 star reviews, which are about the PAPERBACK.I give 5 stars for the book itself.2. This review is for the Kindle version. AS WITH MANY CLASSICS titles (i.e. works in the Western Cannon), THE KINDLE VERSION IS A MESS.--One cannot highlight individual words or make notes on individual words or lines, forcing one to write one note per page.--The endnotes are not hyperlinked. One of the advantages of ebook over traditional is hyperlinks. This doesn't have those in the text itself.--Because one cannot highlight individual words, one cannot use the dictionary/Wikipedia options.3. If this book were free, some problems would be acceptable. But it's not free. It provides LESS VALUE than the printed book and many versions of free or $0.99 books.4. Amazon needs to stop contributing to the decline of Western civilization and clean up its sloppy handling of our classic works, especially those in translation.--Until these problems are fixed, keep Kindle reviews and general book reviews separate.--Be careful about what translation someone is actually purchasing. I'll pay $8 for a good translation but I should get the creaky 19th century translation for free.--Treat these books with the same care re: technology as others. We want even more to take notes and look up words and flip back and forth between sections in these books. Just because one reads a book written in the Middle Ages doesn't mean one will accept Middle Ages standards of text (when most people had no access to good literature, burned witches, died of the plague, etc.).In sum, buy the paper version. Poke Amazon into making Kindle versions of The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Metamorphoses, Sir Gawain, Arthur, Beowulf, etc. readable and in the most current translations. Good companies care about SERVICE (and making a buck).

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