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Quite cool, but i think the server-roundtrip makes it a bit slow. I like the idea of a site adapted to the kindle (because scrolling in parchment is a pain).
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Parchment works quite well, and can be played offline as long as you loaded the game first* (I mean, play from the cache, since it's just javascript). I started hacking it a bit for the kindle screen, because by default it doesn't fit well, but nothing clean enough to be a contribution right now. Scrolling would still be an issue (you need to hit alt-g once in a while).
And despite what some others said in this thread, I tend to think of the kindle as the ultimate interactive fiction device: you can play from anywhere and it reads like a book (if you want to argue the keyboard is not good enough, be warned I used to play Zork on... a TI89).
* Kindle 3 browser doesn't support file:// as I heard previous versions did