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Originally Posted by DNSB
Mandatory is not among my favourite words. It reeks of someone trying to force their opinions and world view on others. Try reading "it should be mandatory for book sites to ..." as compared to "I would like book sites to ...". To me, there is a major difference in the attitudes expressed by those two sentence fragments. To you, it would appear to be trivial.
As for the length of a story? You have obviously mistaken me for someone who cares about the length of a story. I've been a science fiction/fantasy reader for many years. Those years included having subscriptions to Analog, Galaxy and the Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy back when print editions were the only portable way to read books (unless you count microfilm/microfiche as portable). This may give you a gentle hint that I like short stories, novellas and their ilk. There are many authors whose work I admire who seldom wrote anything longer than a short story.
I've also read books that came highly recommended but ended with me agreeing with a book review by Dorothy Parker to the effect ""This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." There were some other books that would have done better entered in the Bulwer-Lytton contest. Other books that should have been left to molder on the slush pile.
Again, these comments are my personal opinions which I have no difficulty not mistaking for holy writ -- unless of course, the holy writ is "The Holy Book of Universal Truth and other humorous anecdotes".
To get somewhat back on the topic of this thread -- free Kobo books, wasn't it? -- Kobo does offer previews which you can download and read using either the desktop app or your reader. The last preview I looked at had the full table of contents so a good guess at the length could be made.
Regards,
David
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I apologize for making this into a necrothread but this is the only link I could find with a discussion of these magazines formatted for the Kobo.
I used to buy individual issues of these magazines through Fictionwise but I'm switching from a Paperwhite to a Kobo Aura. I thought the Aura would be a better venue for these magazines. However I am unable to find them on the Kobo site. Or anywhere else it seems other than for the Kindle.
Please, will someone who knows a link to a bookstore that sells these magazines kindly share a link?
Thanks much.