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The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury (Kindle eBook)

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Amazon has The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury (Kindle eBook) on sale for $2.60.

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: This title is only available on select devices and the latest version of the Kindle app due to the cartoon images. Please refer to the supported device list on product page before purchase.

About this Book:
  • Now available for the first time as an e-book!
  • The cartoons in this e-book have been specially formatted for optimal viewing. The e-book will only work on color tablets and is not intended for viewing on desktop apps or black and white tablets.
  • Calvin, the six-year-old dirty tricksmeister and master of indignation and his warm, cuddly philosopher sidekick and Hobbes, a tiger whose idea of adventure is to lie on his back by the fire and have his stomach rubbed. This unlikely due captured the hearts, the minds, and, most of all, the funny bones of America. The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes contains an original full-color section, as well as all the cartoons appearing in The Revenge of the Baby-Sat and Scientific Progress Goes "Boink." All Sunday cartoons are presented in full-color.

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Amazon has The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury (Kindle eBook) on sale for $2.60.

Thanks to Deal Editor Discombobulated for sharing this deal.

Note
: This title is only available on select devices and the latest version of the Kindle app due to the cartoon images. Please refer to the supported device list on product page before purchase.

About this Book:
  • Now available for the first time as an e-book!
  • The cartoons in this e-book have been specially formatted for optimal viewing. The e-book will only work on color tablets and is not intended for viewing on desktop apps or black and white tablets.
  • Calvin, the six-year-old dirty tricksmeister and master of indignation and his warm, cuddly philosopher sidekick and Hobbes, a tiger whose idea of adventure is to lie on his back by the fire and have his stomach rubbed. This unlikely due captured the hearts, the minds, and, most of all, the funny bones of America. The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes contains an original full-color section, as well as all the cartoons appearing in The Revenge of the Baby-Sat and Scientific Progress Goes "Boink." All Sunday cartoons are presented in full-color.

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eh this "holier than thou" approach is a bit extreme and i think overlooks how this potentially exposes new readers to Watterson's work; those that may not be seeking out physical copies nor know of its existence. are physical copies better? for those of us raised on actual books, sure most likely, but to newer generations, it's far more likely for a kid to come across something through a family member's kindle or digital library. does Watterson approve? prolly not. but as long as Calvin and Hobbes lives on through the hearts and minds of future generations, i'm all for that.

it's better to have read an e-reader version of Moby Dick than to never have read Moby Dick at all.
Getting this as an e-book kind of takes all the soul out of Watterson's work.
seeing that cover brings back such a warm blanket of memories staying up later than i was supposed to reading it with a flashlight in my bed

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critconfirm
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Getting this as an e-book kind of takes all the soul out of Watterson's work.
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Quote from critconfirm :
Getting this as an e-book kind of takes all the soul out of Watterson's work.

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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seeing that cover brings back such a warm blanket of memories staying up later than i was supposed to reading it with a flashlight in my bed
Last edited by mister42 March 13, 2025 at 04:28 AM.
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Quote from critconfirm :
Getting this as an e-book kind of takes all the soul out of Watterson's work.

Agreed and I highly recommend always getting print copies of comics and art for obvious reasons but also, if you just want to be able to reminisce and pull up a favorite strip to show your kids, or anyone really, $3 ain't bad to have a digital copy so long as you know it will never compare or convey the same as the print version. So I look at this as a supplement to, not a replacement for.
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Got $3 digital credit that expires at the end of the month. This is a no-brainer for me. Fun fact, during the most recent snow event, I channeled my inner Calvin and created a rather gory snow scene.
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Quote from critconfirm :
Getting this as an e-book kind of takes all the soul out of Watterson's work.
Right. Because Watterson was a huge advocate for the smaller print spaces of newspapers.
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Totally in for this. I already have all the books, but it will be nice to have this on the go, so to speak.

I think we could all use a little more Calvin & Hobbes with everything that is going on now.
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Quote from critconfirm :
Getting this as an e-book kind of takes all the soul out of Watterson's work.
eh this "holier than thou" approach is a bit extreme and i think overlooks how this potentially exposes new readers to Watterson's work; those that may not be seeking out physical copies nor know of its existence. are physical copies better? for those of us raised on actual books, sure most likely, but to newer generations, it's far more likely for a kid to come across something through a family member's kindle or digital library. does Watterson approve? prolly not. but as long as Calvin and Hobbes lives on through the hearts and minds of future generations, i'm all for that.

it's better to have read an e-reader version of Moby Dick than to never have read Moby Dick at all.
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FWIW, from the Amazon reviews:

"C&H is always fantastic and this book has some of the funnier strips. But the Kindle version is terrible. The strips are stretched out and distorted (at least on iPad) and rotated 90 degrees (and rotating the iPad doesn't help because then the image rotates too, you have to use the rotation lock)."

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Last edited by PurpleNest2305 March 13, 2025 at 06:43 AM.
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Same here, the first couple of pages are correct and the rest of the book is sideways..IPad air
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Quote from akhobbes :
eh this "holier than thou" approach is a bit extreme and i think overlooks how this potentially exposes new readers to Watterson's work; those that may not be seeking out physical copies nor know of its existence. are physical copies better? for those of us raised on actual books, sure most likely, but to newer generations, it's far more likely for a kid to come across something through a family member's kindle or digital library. does Watterson approve? prolly not. but as long as Calvin and Hobbes lives on through the hearts and minds of future generations, i'm all for that.

it's better to have read an e-reader version of Moby Dick than to never have read Moby Dick at all.
Besides, why do we need to cut down trees and clutter our home. Digital is convenient.

I get that there something about holding and reading books, but digital is a good option too.
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FYI - After the intro pages, the comic pages display in the wrong orientation on the Kindle Cloud Reader.
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Awesome - something fun to read and a great way to use up the free ship credits
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Quote from critconfirm :
Getting this as an e-book kind of takes all the soul out of Watterson's work.

Getting this as an ebook versus never getting it at all is a fantastic decision.

Look, I absolutely love sitting in a comfy chair with a physical comic book in my hands, turning the pages as I go.

But if a steep discount causes someone to pull the trigger and buy this for the first time, they're way better off than if they just never read this at all.

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Quote from gamingdroid :
Besides, why do we need to cut down trees and clutter our home. Digital is convenient.

I get that there something about holding and reading books, but digital is a good option too.

Why cut down renewable trees when we can create horrible e-waste instead?
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