The first three books in the Bloom County Digital Collections library are included in this month’s Monthly Kindle Book Deals $3.99 Or Less. All three are currently being offered at $3.99 each, which is 60% off their usual price of $9.99!
KF on KND Editor’s Note: Some reviewers have given the first book in this series low marks due to formatting concerns. The reviewers complain the strips are presented in too small a size to be easily readable. I’ve bought the first book in the series and did not find this to be the case. While it’s true that the strips cannot be enlarged on-screen, since there’s only one strip per “page” (or screen), this isn’t really a problem. Based on reviews from other books in the series, it seems these books may have been re-formatted since they were originally released.
If you buy one or more of these and decide you agree with the negative reviewers, you have seven days from date of purchase to return the ebook for a full refund.
Bloom County Digital Library Vol. 1 (4/5 stars, currently on sale for $3.99)
Specially formatted digital edition! Collecting every strip from December 8, 1980, through December 31, 1981, in chronological order, with a new cover insert by Breathed.
Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County burst onto the American comic scene in December 1980 and it soon became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The endearing and quirky denizens of the strip included Milo Bloom, Steve Dallas, Michael Binkley, Cutter John, Bill the Cat, and Opus the Penguin. Bloom County was a strip that dealt with many issues relevant to the period. Occasional “Context comments” are added throughout this collection, giving the reader a greater understanding of the time.
This is the first time Bloom County has been collected in a digital library. IDW will add more volumes, one year per volume. Each newspaper strip is reproduced in chronological order from first to last. Great effort has been made to ensure the highest production values are achieved.
Bloom County Digital Library Vol. 2 (5/5 stars, currently on sale for $3.99)
Specially formatted digital edition! Collecting every strip from January 1, 1982, through December 31, 1982, in chronological order.
One Amazon reviewer says:
If you’ve been following the formatting issues with other entries in this series, I can tell you this– I just downloaded the sample onto my kindle fire, and it is just perfect.
The formatting is oriented the proper direction, and the content is actually readable.
In fact, some extra care has been taken to give every strip a nicely designed setting.
Bloom County Digital Library Vol. 3 (5/5 stars, currently on sale for $3.99)
Note that the cover art shown on Amazon is the same as for the Vol. 2 collection, but this is the Vol. 3 ebook
Specially formatted digital edition! Collecting every strip from January 1, 1983, through December 31, 1983, in chronological order.
One Amazon reviewer says:
For me this was when his comic came into its own.
I was reading this and Calvin and Hobbes at the time, and these were classics. The humor is a bit snarky which imakes for fun reading…
That was the heyday of Bloom County.