Handbook of Ship Calculations, Construction and Operation: A Book of Reference for Shipowners, Ship Officers, Ship and Engine Draughtsmen, Marine Engineers, and Others Engaged in the Building and Operating of Ships

Charles Haynes Hughes

Jan 1917 · D. Appleton

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The bad news: One thing I'll say, I agree with the historian reviewer below, I have found the Kindle file versions of all of these books to be basically unreadable, as a text. The whole thing is basically like a plain text file all thrown together, with no The page numbers, book and chapter names (usually at the top of the page), and photos are basically thrown right in the middle of the text! That's nothing compared to the whole pages of unintelligible combinations of symbols and letters, such as: <<<juc#! pp /// >der and et cetera. The good news is that so far, I've been able to side step this by downloading the books as PDF files. That presents the whole work scanned pretty much exactly the way you'd see the book in the- fiber. But don't assume the complaints pertain to all formats the books can be downloaded in!

Can't say much for the book because I can't read it using this TERRIBLE format! "Clumsy" is an inadequate word. "Awkward" sums it up but omits the frustration level. As a historian and therefore someone who reads 5 to 7 books a week this format doesn't work.