eBook source: Free from eBooks Gratuits (as Mobipocket, eReader, PDF or Word)
Read on: Sony PRS-300
Thoughts
I read the Alice stories countless times as a child, so I wanted to see how this would go as an eBook. I was surprised at how short the book is - at less than 160 pages, it didn't take as long to read as I'd remembered, but the volume that I had as a child included Through the Looking Glass as well, which I recommend as a follow up to this book.
About the eBook
I first read the ePub from Project Gutenberg, but it doesn't include illustrations and the formatting is terrible on the Sony Pocket Reader (verses such as Old Father William are displayed as fixed-width blocks that extend off the 5" screen even at the smallest text size, and hence, are unreadable).
In order to read the verses and see the illustrations on the Sony Reader, I downloaded the Mobipocket version from eBooks Gratuits and converted it to ePub using Calibre. It is identified as the 1865 edition, and it includes the illustrations by John Tenniel.
There is another excellent Mobipocket version available from the MobileRead Forums (which includes an introduction that is missing from the Gratuits version), however the image quality is not quite as good.
The epubbooks reproduction of the 1916 abridged 'Alice in Wonderland' is lovely (and includes different illustrations).
eBooks read so far: 2
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