In summary, this gets 5 out of 5 stars because the content is great and my complaints were only for very minor things. I like to lock the screen into portrait or landscape mode while reading sometimes so I can read with it sideways while lying in bed, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get it to lock the way I wanted it. This wasn't an issue, but occasionally the words were small enough that I had to squint a little to read them.Īnother very minor complaint was that the orientation of the page wasn't the way I wanted it. It worked the first time I had it open, but when I opened the book again, it went back to normal book viewing mode (wouldn't zoom or anything). When I first opened it on my Kindle Fire HD, a tutorial-like screen popped up to show me how to zoom and move from slide to slide.
Now that I'm an adult, I laugh because I understand a lot of the cultural/political references better and because I can see how funny the disconnect is between the imagination of a child and the reality-based world of adulthood. As a kid, I used to laugh at the funny things Calvin used to do. Calvin and Hobbes is great because it is funny on so many levels. The content is exactly as stated (the first two books combined I believe) and the colors were great. Having always been a fan of Calvin and Hobbes, I jumped at the chance to get it on Kindle. Printing-wise, 2 out of 5 - what were they thinking when they put out this cheap, flimsy edition? Disappointed, but I guess it's worth exactly the $10 I paid for the paperback copy. So, content-wise, 5 out of 5 stars for being yet another great Calvin & Hobbes collection. I haven't tested the quality of the binding yet, but it doesn't have the same heft as the originals.
The colors on the color comics are "off" - especially side-by-side with the original books from the 90's and early 2000's, you can see that something is wrong. So when I finally decided to buy it this month, I was really looking forward to completing the collection! Yes, it's the same book with the same delightfully terrifying opening, but the printing quality isn't there at all. This was the one book my father and I were missing out of our Calvin & Hobbes collection - and it's the one book that racked up a hefty library fine for the eight year-old me when it disappeared onto my bookshelf and I forgot that it wasn't mine.
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