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EARTHDATE: October 23, 2011

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READING THE STAR ON THE KINDLE

by Hazed

This week, should you so choose, you can read the Fed2 Star on an Amazon Kindle. Well, you could always do that because the device comes with its own browser, but it should be more readable this week.

 

It's all because I was playing around with my Kindle. The device comes with a browser, but Amazon calls it "experimental" which I guess means they haven't fixed all the bugs. As regular readers will know, my new job involves publishing and we're going to start with e-books for the Kindle.

 

The plan is to put hyperlinks in the text of the book so that readers can go look at the company's website (http://www.advfn.com). I wanted to see what the browser was like - just how experimental it was.

 

Naturally, the first website I looked at was the ibgames site (http://www.ibgames.net) and I was delighted to find that it worked very well indeed. My decision to keep the site design simple and uncluttered has paid off!

 

I looked at the Fed2 Star and discovered that although it was readable on the Kindle, it would work even better if the page wasn't so wide. So this week, as an experiment, I have formatted the pages for the news so they are narrower.

 

If you read the news on the website (with a Kindle or otherwise) let me know what you think.


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