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Notjohn · 07-25-2017, 07:22 AM

There are just a few Kindle in Motion books available yet, and I think all of them are Amazon's own imprints. As a Prime subscriber, I have the seldom-exercised opportunity to get a freebie-of-the-month ($1.99 for everyone else). THE SKY BELOW was one such Kindle First and a Kindle in Motion. So I fetched it and began to read it last night.

I have to say that the graphics on this book are dazzling. I haven't checked it on my PaperWhite (which Susan has stolen from me and now regards as her own) but on the Fire tablet the color just leaps off the screen. (Kindles of course don't show color.) There's the occasional jet-black page with orange text, which if someone described to me I would likely grab for the vomit bucket, but thanks to the designer it does work, though with the obvious result that the black text on white pages that follow look pretty tame. I've seen only one bit of MOTION so far, and that was the author's prospective path up Mt Everest: I saw a graphic of the mountain, then a dotted red line marched up it like an ant on drugs, with his various base camps popping up as he marched. But it was so quick I almost missed it, and dang if I could get it to repeat so I could show it to Susan (as I sometimes do with particularly clever ads on the Fire).

But what impressed me most was the fact that images filled the width of the screen. THAT was great. Not to have that quarter-inch of white space at the margin really dressed up the page. (And once when the image was the summit of Everest with a breathless blue sky above it, filling the entire screen, with the text continuing on it as if it were a regular page.)

It's actually a pretty good book, given that it cost me nothing, so I will keep reading. But do I want my own books to start in motion? No. Nor do I want Jack Reacher nor Bernie Gunther to start springing across the screen...

07-25-2017, 07:22 AM	#1
Notjohn mostly an observer Posts: 1,519 Karma: 987654 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kindle	Kindle in Motion There are just a few Kindle in Motion books available yet, and I think all of them are Amazon's own imprints. As a Prime subscriber, I have the seldom-exercised opportunity to get a freebie-of-the-month ($1.99 for everyone else). THE SKY BELOW was one such Kindle First and a Kindle in Motion. So I fetched it and began to read it last night. I have to say that the graphics on this book are dazzling. I haven't checked it on my PaperWhite (which Susan has stolen from me and now regards as her own) but on the Fire tablet the color just leaps off the screen. (Kindles of course don't show color.) There's the occasional jet-black page with orange text, which if someone described to me I would likely grab for the vomit bucket, but thanks to the designer it does work, though with the obvious result that the black text on white pages that follow look pretty tame. I've seen only one bit of MOTION so far, and that was the author's prospective path up Mt Everest: I saw a graphic of the mountain, then a dotted red line marched up it like an ant on drugs, with his various base camps popping up as he marched. But it was so quick I almost missed it, and dang if I could get it to repeat so I could show it to Susan (as I sometimes do with particularly clever ads on the Fire). But what impressed me most was the fact that images filled the width of the screen. THAT was great. Not to have that quarter-inch of white space at the margin really dressed up the page. (And once when the image was the summit of Everest with a breathless blue sky above it, filling the entire screen, with the text continuing on it as if it were a regular page.) It's actually a pretty good book, given that it cost me nothing, so I will keep reading. But do I want my own books to start in motion? No. Nor do I want Jack Reacher nor Bernie Gunther to start springing across the screen...