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 Not very manageable September 5, 2010
L. Elise Benson (Hampton, VA, USA)
I love the stories. My son is enjoying One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes every night, but I had to memorize the "location" to keep from having to click back page by page, and skipping to another story is really fairly prohibitive. Can't complain too much, though, it was free. :)
 NAVIGATION OF "FAIRY TALES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW" KINDLE VERSION August 13, 2010
Curtis L. Hayes (Marion, IL USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Navigation for this ebook as well as others without active table of contents is simplified by adding your own highlight on the story title or chapter # as it first comes up. I got this version yesterday eventhough my wife has it on her kindle and complained about no table of contents. Last night as I was reading the stories, I highlighted the story title as if first appeared on the screen. After doing this several times, I went to view your notes/highlights, and lo and behold there they were with location # and title, highlight the title and press the 5 way control and you are now at the beginning of the story..... great for re-reading those stories to those grandkids who always want to hear the story again and again and again.
Hope this helps to all who are concerned about "No Active Table of Contents".
Navigation Information August 9, 2010
Earleen Smith
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I notice that more than one person is unhappy with the navigation in this book. However, if you go to the "Popular Highlights" at the bottom of the screen, it is easily navigated. You can also choose a "Location" number, but since I only bought the book this morning, have not yet figured out how you know where you are in terms of a number. There is also the "search" option. If you know the title or even a word in the title, you can search for it. You can bookmark a place with a location number, if it's something you will want to return to frequently - as I know happens when reading to young children. I know this all takes longer than just clicking on the Table of Contents, but it's still okay. Hope you find this useful.
 Good content -- Non existent story navigation August 2, 2010
Vulfie
Be very wary of buying this title for children because of the HORRIBLE navigation problems posed by the e-book's navigation structure. I bought this for my 8 year old daughter last night because she wanted something to read at bedtime. The download went fine but when we opened the book we discovered that there was no way to navigate through the book via its table of contents.
So, when she wanted to read the story about "Aladdin and his Magic Lamp" she could not click on the chapter title in the book's table of contents and DIRECTLY navigate to the first page of the story. Instead, we only had the following two frustrating options to get to the story deep within a book well over a thousand e-pages long:
1) Click through several hundred pages, one, by one, by one, by one, by one, by one, by one, until we eventually got to the story 15 to 20 minutes later.
Or
2) Use the search function to search through the ENTIRE book for the keyword "Aladdin" and then click on the one instance of the keyword which, hopefully, would bring us on or near the first page of the story.
This is absolutely unacceptable for an e-book and on the basis of that alone I would strongly avoid downloading this for any child to read on his or her own.
The stories, however, are glorious and all written in wonderful Victorian era English (the original book was published in 1905) and are very much worth reading to your children.
Two stars for the absence of navigation links.
 ORIGINAL FAIRYTALES July 8, 2010
Dawn
I bought this to read to my kids before bed. They love hearing how the stories are supposed to be told. It's a great read.
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