Kew: The Witch's Garden: Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine Hardcover – Illustrated, October 6, 2020

This beautiful book (and the other two in the series, the one on the Witch's Garden, and the one on Magic Mushrooms (and other ethneogens that have psychoactive effects) are SUCH a delight. I ordered all three of them together because I have developed an appreciation for books that may not necessarily be enormous tomes containing every single known fact on a subject, but which are smaller sized hardbacks that are beautifully printed, with lovely imagery and design, and which contain lots of interesting folklore and information. These Kew books are one of these books. Except they aren't fiiled with just basic information about the plants which appear(ed) in the Witch's Garden and the Witch's Forest-- I have been reading about witching plants for years, yet when I cracked open this book to just browse through, I ended up sitting down and literally reading it from cover to cover, and filling it with tons of mini sticky flags indicating information that I found interesting, new, and/or would like to record somewhere else so I can remember. I ended up reading all three books, cover to cover, in one night, and then began browsing Kew's other offerings. I don't see anything that grabs me yet, but I'm eagerly awaiting more books like this.A wonderfully designed, beautiful hardback of interesting history on the witching plants

Easy to read, fascinating snippets about plants we take for granted. A great read for these cold days when we long to get back into the garden - and also interesting planting ideas.

This book is full of interesting information, it’s well laid out, and there are pretty pictures. No spells though.

In perfect state, the book has beautiful illustrations

Arrived quickly and was as expected

I don't know what the format is called, but the text is not true Kindle text. It is handled as a two page image. Yes, an image like photograph rather than actual Kindle text. Because the book is a collection of images rather than a true Kindle format e-book, you can NOT perform the following functions:--select and highlight text--select fonts or font size--use the search function--write notes--use the dictionary.On my Fire 10 two pages are displayed simultaneously on the middle of the screen. It is slightly larger than one third the screen with almost a third of white space above and below the the displayed pages. The book forces you to hold the Fire in portrait mode (long side vertical). The text is too small to comfortably read, so you must use a two fingered swipe to zoom in on the text. Then you must pan around the page to read it. When you flip the page, the next two pages are displayed in the original too small to read size.Technically I could probably read this on my Paperwhite but when I zoomed in on the page the image quality deteriorated to the degree that I found it illegible and ceased to fool around with it.No where on the sales page do I see any reference to the fact that this is in any special format.The book is attractive with nice illustrations and looks informative, but because of the image format, the book has been reduced to the Kindle equivalent of coffee table book and not a serious text for research. Because it can be read on my Fire (although painfully) and I bought it on sale on the Daily Deal, I decided to keep the book. Had I paid full price, I would have immediately returned it for a refund. -

The type in the kindle version overlaps and has sporadic spaces which makes reading difficult and gave me a headache. I haven't seen the print version but I wouldn't recommend this version to anyone.

The letters of words on top of each other .No spaces between words .couldn't read at all. Worst kindle book I've ever bought