this is a good book bacuse it has all the original recipes for all flavors come in very handy.. for b day etc

I downloaded the oddly-named "400 Vodka Absolut Cocktails" because it was a freebie, and I thought it would be handy to have an ebook of drink recipes for those occasions when I want to destroy my liver in some new and exotic way. I also downloaded "488 Bacardi Rum Based Cocktails," by the same author (the improbably-named "Lev Well"), at the same time. Both books follow exactly the same format, so my comments apply equally to both.

First off, credit where credit is due: the books do contain the promised drink recipes. However, all the recipes are thrown together without pagination (as though all were typed on one, continuous roll of paper), which makes searching a big pain. You see, there's no table of contents, so jumping to a drink recipe is impossible. At least the recipes are in alphabetical order, but that's of little comfort if the name of the recipe you're looking for begins with a letter near the end of the alphabet. The bottom line: expect to do a LOT of scrolling (and if you can't remember the name of the drink you're looking for, heaven help you).

It seems to me that it would have easy to provide a table of contents with links (the way the vast majority of Kindle books do) to allow the reader to jump directly to their desired recipe. An ordinary book (remember those?) wouldn't suffer from this problem, so this is one instance when an ebook doesn't trump its paper equivalent. The all-important recipes are there, of course, so I can't say these books are a complete misfire - only that at three bucks a throw, without so much as a table of contents or an introductory paragraph, they're not a great value. If Mr. or Ms. "Well" would only revise them to provide some means of navigation, I would heartily recommend them - but until then I think they would be more realistically priced at 99 cents.