I now have it on my laptop, my Android Tablet & my new Sony Z2 mobile. I downloaded the Amazon Kindle & some of the free books. Anyway, at £1.52 it's a bargain - you soon learn to ignore the odd line-breaks and just enjoy the stories. line flow of the first book is all over the place, with line breaks mid-way through sentences not sure whether this is because it was targeted as a different e-reader (I have a Kindle Paperwhite), but it does look like this was was rushed out without proper checking. I would have given this edition 5-stars as I loved the stories, but I docked one star as this e-book implementation isn't brilliant i.e. But I did love the on-screen version of the (big) Green Men, the Tharks - just how I imagined them to be! It's worth comparing the original Princess of Mars story with the John Carter (Blu-ray 3D / Blu Ray 2D) film as it makes you realise how good Burroughs' story-telling is - there's a lot to like about the film, but it didn't have the same sort of charm (for me, anyway) that the original story had. It's also good to see the original book covers, even if the illustrations are a bit small (apart from the main cover pic). What is interesting, though, is Burroughs' equal treatment of all races, with no trace of discrimination at all - quite unusual for his time, and refreshing to see. The language and morals are obviously very dated, but that's part of the charm of older books - it gives you an insight into how people thought at that time. just over 100 years ago, when little was known about Mars at all.
The writing style is rather primitive, with characters launching into long monologues which are a bit artificial, but the stories are very readable and very imaginative - especially when you realise when these were written i.e.
I haven't read these books since the 1970s, but I found them just as enthralling as they were 40 years ago.
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