Product Description

The full text of the 16 volumes of Richard Burton's monumental translation of The Arabian Nights, with all his candid, racy footnotes, with their wealth of anthropological and cultural information. In response to customer feedback, we upgraded this file on 5/11/2008, fixing the end-of-line formatting problem and with links in the overall table of contents to help you navigate to the tables of contents of each of the volumes. If you bought a copy before that date, you should be able to download the new version from Amazon at no extra charge. (The product number is the same).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5325 in eBooks
• Published on: 2007-12-25
• Format: Kindle Book

Customer Reviews

Still a Long Way To Go
Apparently, some corrections were made since the poorest reviews (1 star) were made as there is now a Table of Contents, though the Table is not accessible from the Kindle menu. Most annoying yet is that the apparent source was a text document with hard line breaks that were not removed. The result is a very hard to read with every other line contains a few words, often just one. Hopefully this will be corrected. In it's current form, perhaps it's worth a dollar, but I for one would rather pay more for a book that reads like a book.

Excellent value for dollar
For the Kindle version of this classic: 99 cents is excellent value for the dollar. The publisher responded to a prior negative review and added an active Table Of Contents to help navigate the lengthy content. Can you get the content free elsewhere? Sure - at any public library. But the chance to have this at my fingertips for 99 cents - great convenience and fantastic value. (I travel a lot and literally downloaded at an airport before a flight because I wanted to reread sections I remembered from my youth.)

No formatting, no table of contents
The quality of this kindle book is utterly bad. It is just a plain text file copied (I believe) from Project Gutenberg. I don't think the maker put into any extra effort. There are no editing, no linkable table of contents. For such a huge book, it is totally useless.

Some may argue that for $.99 what you can ask for. First, I didn't buy it just because it is cheap. I don't want 16 separate files on my kindle just for the Arabian nights. Secondly, I think it is a great waste, even for Amazon's sake. The downloaded file is 8mb and I don't think it worth the pipeline coast Amazon pays.

I am now thinking maybe I will put in some time to make my own proper version and put it on Amazon. Not for profit, I just can't stand such an unpolished work. In fact, even the $2.79/volume ones by fictionwise are very poorly made. There are no toc either...