Quote:
Originally Posted by tomsem
Well, you can use skweezer.com . . .
I'm not sure it is secure, and it definitely is not pretty, and I'm not sure it is worth it, but it did work for me using my K3.
|
I don't hardly use skweezer, so just decided to do a test where I put the Guardian news summary through Skweezer.com, and then through readingthenet.com to get a more readable font, and then to tinyurl.com so that anyone who is reading this on a computer can easily enter the url on their Kindle. Result:
http://www.tinyurl.com/3fv6ev3
Then I tried the exact same using rsskindle.com instead of skweezer.com:
http://tinyurl.com/3l7erfg
skweezer brings in advertisements, which is, I suppose, a more ethical approach. I'd be OK with that except that skweezer seems slower to load despite cutting off the ends of some articles. Not acceptable. The second link above, the one from rss kindle, is not merely acceptable. I like it better than the cluttered PC version.
This test is just illustrative and may be unfair to skweezer due to the rss aspect of the original page. I suspect your example of library borrowing indicates that if you are trying to go something with the converted web page, rather than read the text, skweezer is worth trying.
Bottom line:
Kindle is indeed optimized for reading long texts! That's true on the book reader side as well as on the browser side. Just as you will have problems with a complex graphic laden pdf on the book side, you also will have problems with a complex web site. It does take playing with a web site, by running it through the various filters, to get it how you like it. This may differ from how I like it. For example, I like large fonts and no illustrations.
Quote:
Originally Posted by chas0039
There's the problem. I have a Kindle 3.
|
m.gmail.com works slowly but acceptably, using 3G, on my US Kindle 3. I don't try graphic emails, just regular text to text. It's not wonderful, but the monthly service price is right.