Product Description
All Wizard of Oz books for $.99: with active table of contents:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ;
The Marvelous Land of Oz ;
The Woggle-Bug Book ;
Ozma of Oz ;
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ;
The Road to Oz ;
The Emerald City of Oz ;
The Patchwork Girl of Oz ;
Tik-Tok of Oz ;
The Scarecrow of Oz ;
Rinkitink in Oz ;
The Lost Princess of Oz ;
The Tin Woodman of Oz ;
The Magic of Oz Glinda of Oz
R. G. Tichy @ 7:57 pm
The good news is all the books are there, and it’s only 99 cents!
The bad news is that it is not formatted for the kindle at all. There are ““s at the end of every line and none of the different type sizes kindle offers will make the lines come out evenly on the page. There are 15 books, but no hyperlinked table of contents, so if you want to read “Ozma of Oz”, just guess what location number to go to because it’s just one long document.
I cannot imagine that it would have been hard to solve the line breaks issue before publishing this as a kindle book.
Andrew D Betts @ 9:56 pm
As stated in another review. The books are all there, but the formatting is horrible. I thought I’d pay to not have to convert them myself, but I could have done just as well with 10 minutes, mobicreater and Project Gutenberg. I’d wait to buy this until the formatting is fixed.
Patricia Middleton @ 10:15 pm
I notice that all of the reviews listed for this book are dated prior to the release date, and therefore have nothing to do with the Bedford Park Books version. Well, I’m here to tell you that the negative comments are unfounded, and are intended for another title, because this is a five-star book both in terms of pricing and packaging. The layout is clean and beautiful and the large file is easy to navigate, as all of the chapters for all 14 books are linked in the table of contents. This is also a great anthology, seeing it collects all of the classic L. Frank Baum books in one place, so you can read to your heart’s content right on your Kindle or iPad (I actually use the Kindle for PC, which works wonderfully).
Excellent value, this. But only the Bedford Park Books version of The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection, as the reviews tend to bleed over into other titles that are undeserving.
Melynda Rowland @ 11:11 pm
This is another glowing review for the Bedford Parks Books version of the Complete Wizard of Oz collection. I am dismayed to read the bad reviews, of which most actually belong to a completely different collection of 15 Oz books.
I have a Kindle 2, and the Bedford Park Books set is formatted for the Kindle. I have had no problems with it. The table of contents is fully functional, with easy access to each chapter of each of the 14 books.
As one recent reviewer noted, this collection does not include The Woggle-Bug Book. However, that book is technically not an Oz series book, even if it does feature an Oz character visiting our world. Also, it clearly states on the cover of this collection that this is a 14 book set of the Oz series by L. Frank Baum.
I grew up with these stories, and I love them. I like that these wonder tales, unlike older fairy tales (Grimm, Perrault, Anderson), involve characters from late 19th/early 20th Century America that are transported to Oz.
Some other reviewer complained that you can find all of these books available as individual books for free. That is true. Nevertheless, I totally do not regret paying $0.95 for the convenience of getting all 14 beloved books together in one volume AND formatted for Kindle with an active Table of Contents. For me, that is well worth it.
I also have the Bedford Parks Books versions of the Complete Sherlock Holmes and the Complete Jane Austen for the Kindle. I have no complaints with those either. I would definitely buy more collections put together by them.
Paul Wiley @ 2:06 am
bought the sample version first to see if the issue was fixed and it appears to be fixed. So children and adults alike can enjoy the Classic reading of the wonderful world of OZ.