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English editions

The illustrated PDF and both EPUBs hold the complete book. The home-printing editions fit ordinary A4 or US Letter paper and print the pictures in greyscale. The large-text edition sets the story text in 18-point type on A4, with the pictures in colour. The low-ink edition, also on A4, prints each picture as a pale grey drawing with clear outlines, which uses far less ink or toner. These four print editions contain the twenty-five fables on their own, without the storyteller’s frame tales, the bestiary, the questions, or the notes for grown-ups. The full EPUB carries the largest pictures. The lite EPUB has the same text, picture descriptions, and chapter links, with smaller pictures so it downloads faster.

Translated editions

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To check a file, work out its fingerprint on your own device and compare it with the tables above. On a Mac, open Terminal, type shasum -a 256 and a space, drag the book file into the window, and press Return. On Windows, open PowerShell, type Get-FileHash and a space, drag the file in, and press Enter. On Linux, run sha256sum followed by the file name. All 64 letters and numbers should match (capital and small letters count as the same). To check several files at once, download the plain checksum file, which lists every value.

If the values differ, the download was probably interrupted or damaged. Delete it and download it again.