Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection Summary and Reviews

Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection
by George Black

Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection
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Author: George Black
Edition: Roughcut
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-08
ISBN: 1400063965
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Random House

Book Reviews of Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection

Book Review: Not a great fit for Kindle
Summary: 2 Stars

My rating in no way reflects the content of the book--in fact, I haven't had the patience to fight through the formatting of the Kindle version. A table at the beginning of the book is not resizable on the Kindle, and the text is extremely small and faint (on an original Kindle). There's also a diagram that's not resizable. I can understand that about the diagram, but the table is just a timeline of fly fishing and rod technology--no pictures, just text. Worse, throughout the book's text, there are numerous unnecessarily hyphenated words that retain that hyphenation regardless of text size on the Kindle (for example, "unneces- sarily" or "hy- phenated"). If this were a business memo I'd muddle through, but it's too unpleasant for light reading.

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