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That review was posted just 11 hours ago, from a reviewer who apparently has a lot of problems with his/her electronic devices.


Yes, but if you check the Look Inside on that book, the formatting is indeed all over the place.

It looks like this, with one-word lines every other line like it was formatted
too
big for the device.
And there aren't any first-line indentations that I can see,
either.

That might just be the Look Inside, though, and the actual book is formatted differently?
 

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Yes, but if you check the Look Inside on that book, the formatting is indeed all over the place.

It looks like this, with one-word lines every other line like it was formatted
too
big for the device.
And there aren't any first-line indentations that I can see,
either.

That might just be the Look Inside, though, and the actual book is formatted differently?

Okay, I see it now. Had to hit Zoom+ to get there.

They ended every single line with a hard-return (rather than just hitting Enter at the end of every paragraph).

Yes, that's terrible formatting.

They need a copy of this.

Since the Look-inside is derived from the uploaded text that appears on the Kindle, I expect the purchased version has the same problems.

[Update] Just checked: This book doesn't seem to be available for the Nook or iPad.

[Update two] The look-inside for the print version is the one with the formatting problem when zoomed-in (as you'd expect, because in a print version a line is a line). The look-inside for the Kindle version is fine.
 
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Publishing services division, Authorship, Inc.: http://www.authorship.ca/

ETA: last books pubbed in '16, most by co-owner. If still operating, it's under a "short run" model.
 
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