Series: Anesthesia (Miller)
Hardcover: 3312 pages
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 7 edition (June 5, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 044306959X
ISBN-13: 978-0443069598
Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 9.3 x 4.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 16.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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I purchased the electronic edition for my Kindle reader (not a DX) hoping to have this gold-standard reference text in a portable format. This is not a review of content (which, in its 7th edition, accumulates a hundred-plus years of collective anesthetic knowledge) but of the electronic formatting applied to a well-regarded text.The single star rating sums up my assessment of the electronic adaptation of the textbook.1. Failed font application--The font grayscale covers a wide spectrum depending on organizational heirarchy (title, authors name, subject heading, captions, sidebar text, main text) but is often so faint as to be nearly illegible. I posit that this may reflect adaptations of colored printing to a B & W format, nevertheless, it's a crucial editorial oversight/neglect that renders this text nearly unusable2. Poorly developed table of contents--The TOC should have a direct link from the menu, instead, the reader must click Menu / Go-to... / 5way navigate to the TOC button--The TOC lacks subheadings for the chapters. This is a 3000+ page textbook in 102 chapters giving an average 30+ page chapter length. Thirty paper pages is likely thirty pages on a DX but a lot more on the standard Kindle, or when font size is enlarged for ease of reading. The information dense text is extensively subdivided into topic headings that are, essentially, brief articles within each chapter. There is no effective means of skimming chapter sub-headings.--The main TOC should have expandable subheadings. Each chapter should begin with another active TOC for sections within that chapter.3.
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