At the price of nearly $30, the Kindle Oxford Complete Shakespeare is a bad bargain.
Another reviewer says that many of the lines end with line-numbers, and that these numbers are not in the right hand margin, but right after the last word in the lines, which is confusing and annoying. Then the reviewer takes it back and says he was mistaken. He wasn't. He got it right, except that there are line numbers only now and then, here and there, which means you can't even count on finding the line numbers when you need them, but continue to have all the annoyance of having to disregard them at line ends when they DO show up.
It is true also that there are no reverse accent marks (the sign \ over an "-ed" ending) to indicate when "-ed" endings are pronounced to rhyme with "head." Those marks ARE in the Oxford printed text; in the Kindle version, you can't tell the difference between, say, "inform'd" and "informed," since both are printed the second way and the mark Oxford uses to distinguish them is in the book, but not in the Kindle version.
There are also passages where verse is set as prose.
Overall, this edition is better than the complete editions you can get here for a dollar or so, but paying two thousand eight hundred percent more for a couple fewer errors probably won't appeal to many readers.
Some day the major companies will develop enough respect for the Kindle that they'll do serious proofreading of their Kindle versions. In the meantime, I figure the price alone will result in an effective boycott of this edition from Kindle customers. It certainly should.
P. S. I just downloaded the Tom Corbett Space Cadet series for something like three bucks, and I read the first volume. It was pristine: completely typo free. Somebody worked hard proofreading these boys' stories from the fifties; nobody has done half as much work on the Oxford Shakespeare.
