What version to pick for Nook?

[MickeyBA]

I am having some trouble with picking Nookbooks! The books I purchase have all been formatted and easy to read. I'm having issues with some of the free classics that I am getting. For instance.... My daughter needs Treasure Island for her literature class. I tried to download the free version and it has page breaks in odd places on the screen. Is there a way to know what ones will be formatted in a way that will be easier to read? Would buying the $.99 or $1.99 guarantee that it would be formatted?

Thanks for any help.

 

[bicker]

There are no hard-and-fast guarantees, but generally you can tell the minimum expected quality for a book (e-book or otherwise) by the publisher.

One $0.99 edition is from Publisher: Superior Formatting Publishing and another from Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express - never heard of either of them. The second one sounds like it is just Barnes and Noble itself, which wouldn't inspire much confidence in me.

I went through a few other offerings and finally found an edition from an established publisher that I knew, and would expect that publisher to stand behind something with their name on it, Publisher: Bantam Books:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Tr.../e/9780553898590/?itm=12&USRI=treasure+island

That's not to say none of the other editions would be okay as well, but who knows?

 

[golfgal]

I have read a few Nook books with weird page breaks, etc. I haven't noticed any difference between issues with paid books and free books. Some of the books are input just like they are in the real book so if there is a page with one line on it, blank for the rest of the page, you are going to notice a big gap in the book. I have also noticed a few books that cannot be read with some of the background color options. This is not a "Nook" issue because I have had the same issue on my Kindle app too. It is a "publisher" issue. You just have to "turn" a couple extra pages. Keep in mind this is still pretty new technology so there are going to be kinks.

 

[Angelhalo]

I have a read a few free books on my nook so far with strange page breaks but so far I haven't missed any pages. I just got used to the fact that every now and then, there are pages with only a paragraph on them. So far it hasn't been an issue. Right now I am reading Abraham Licoln-Vampire Hunter, and it is definitely an odd page break book.

 

[MickeyBA]

Thanks for the responses. Since it was for my daughter I just went ahead and bought the $1.99 version that was the Barnes and Noble Classics edition or something like that. It's a book that is in print that is for sale in the stores right now so I just took my chances and it was good. If it wasn't for a school thing I wouldn't have worried about it. The others were fine to read, just hard to know where you were in the book. She has to read specific chapters and I just wanted it to be as easy to understand as possible.

Love our Nooks! She and I just got them for Christmas so we are still figuring them out a little bit.