The Oxford Mark Twain has additional introduction and discussion as well as acid-free paper stock--a keeper.  There's nothin' like a solidly well-built book to underline and keep your own notations.  I have a 1907 copy of "John Bull's Other Island" and "Major Barbara" by Bernard Shaw I bought 5 years ago for $9.  The written date inside is 1-17-10 and there are notes as to what the plays "mean"!!!  
 
Get a good copy and notate it!  Kindle be damned.  What happens when the power is out and the battery is in need of a charge?
 
Gordon Snedecor
 
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:43:31 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Best edition for Following the Equator
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> I'm not familiar with the Dover edition, but if it has all the original ill=
> ustrations, then it gets a nod. The edition that is part of the Oxford Mar=
> k Twain reprints the first edition, and the illustrations are some of the m=
> ost interesting in all of Twain's work. Someone with more experience can e=
> xplain the advances in print technology that made these sophisticated image=
> s possible.=20
> 
> --LH
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> Dover has a good paperback edition, with all the original illustrations.
> (ISBN-10: 0486261131)
> Steve Railton
> 
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:01:55 +0000
> "Click, Benjamin A" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Dear Forum members,
> >
> > The recent question about the most comprehensive edition of HF prompts me
> >t=3D
> > o ask you the same about Following the Equator. Any and all
> >suggestions/co=3D
> > mments are welcome.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ben