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BookGlutton an online bookstore

6 points by bdfh42 17y ago

bdfh42 17y ago
$23.99 seems a bit steep as a fee to try out the experience of an on line ebook reader - even if it is written by "The Master". However this looks like an interesting addition to what looks like becoming a wealth of alternate ways to access books other than in the dead tree format. If we were clever enough to spot the winning technology right now we could probably make that fortune - but perhaps we will just have to wait until it becomes retrospectively obvious... <edit> OK - Now I have spotted the sign-up makes a difference - you can get access to the book OK. BUT I can only see the top two thirds of the page - oops now the navigation buttons have wandered off somewhere - I might come back another day and take another look. <edit 2> Looks like signing up was a bad idea - that email address is now picking up emails saying that some other users are following me - clearly balderdash because I can't get the site to work so am making no discernible progress for anyone to follow no matter how slowly they read.
cturner 17y ago
Unresponsive. Should prebuffer page in either direction of current position.
jgrahamc 17y ago
I looked up my own book on this site and it is available, but it appears very ugly. The choice of font for reading, the fact that they've lost things like different font height/weight for headings means that it's hard to read. http://www.bookglutton.com/detail/John+GrahamCumming/The+Geek+Atlas/3232.html http://www.bookglutton.com/detail/John+GrahamCumming/The+Gee... Frankly, you'd be better off with a Scribd or Safari version.
jvdh 17y ago
A lot of interactive webpages break the back-button behavior. However, this one takes the breakage to a whole new level: for each page you turn, an entry to the history is added, but it does nothing. So if you turn a few pages and decide you want to go back to HN, you'll have to hit the back button as often as you turned the page. Without any visual feedback that it does anything.
- jamesbritt 17y ago
  Really? I didn't see that at all. It does, however, gobble up all available memory.

6 points by bdfh42 17y ago

$23.99 seems a bit steep as a fee to try out the experience of an on line ebook reader - even if it is written by "The Master". However this looks like an interesting addition to what looks like becoming a wealth of alternate ways to access books other than in the dead tree format. If we were clever enough to spot the winning technology right now we could probably make that fortune - but perhaps we will just have to wait until it becomes retrospectively obvious... <edit> OK - Now I have spotted the sign-up makes a difference - you can get access to the book OK. BUT I can only see the top two thirds of the page - oops now the navigation buttons have wandered off somewhere - I might come back another day and take another look. <edit 2> Looks like signing up was a bad idea - that email address is now picking up emails saying that some other users are following me - clearly balderdash because I can't get the site to work so am making no discernible progress for anyone to follow no matter how slowly they read.

cturner 17y ago

Unresponsive. Should prebuffer page in either direction of current position.

jgrahamc 17y ago

I looked up my own book on this site and it is available, but it appears very ugly. The choice of font for reading, the fact that they've lost things like different font height/weight for headings means that it's hard to read. http://www.bookglutton.com/detail/John+GrahamCumming/The+Geek+Atlas/3232.html http://www.bookglutton.com/detail/John+GrahamCumming/The+Gee... Frankly, you'd be better off with a Scribd or Safari version.

jvdh 17y ago

A lot of interactive webpages break the back-button behavior. However, this one takes the breakage to a whole new level: for each page you turn, an entry to the history is added, but it does nothing. So if you turn a few pages and decide you want to go back to HN, you'll have to hit the back button as often as you turned the page. Without any visual feedback that it does anything.

jamesbritt 17y ago
Really? I didn't see that at all. It does, however, gobble up all available memory.