Woman of Letters

Woman of Letters

The way that Amazon mixes and matches the Kindle and paperback versions of classic books is absolutely infuriating

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Naomi K
Aug 03, 2014
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Ugly-looking cheap translation

Ugly-looking cheap translation

I'm currently reading Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov, which is a 19th century Russian novel about a nobleman who never gets out of bed. Seriously, I'm like 30,000 words into the book and he's still in bed.

I don't know if you'll see the same thing as I do when you go to the Amazon page for Oblomov, since I have no idea how Amazon…

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