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Originally Posted by Hitch
(I will say that most people don't seem to understand URLs, like Amazon URLs, and include all kinds of cruft that aren't needed for the actual link. You might double-check your URLs, make sure that they are as natively short as they can be, path-wise.)
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You wouldn't believe how much superfluous crap there is much of the time. Especially with Google/Youtube/Amazon links, these people leave in all the extra cruft (which browser you used, what your original search terms were, how you arrived at the page, [...]).
For example, I just tested a simple "test" in Google:
95 Characters:
https://www.google.com/search?q=test...hrome&ie=UTF-8
36 Characters:
https://www.google.com/search?q=test
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Originally Posted by Hitch
NJ, just give it up.
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Best to just leave the linebreaking up to the device.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
Seriously, you can't get there from here with URLs, not unless you use a link shortener, but make sure that you choose one like goo.gl, so that it will be around for the duration of the book. ;-)
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I am no fan of link shorteners. That would lead to Link Rot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot
I don't care HOW big you think they are, the shortener will die and it will make it impossible to find the source in the future (for example, being able to use Archive.org to get copies of the old website).
Side Note: One of the favorite projects I ever ran across was URLTeam by Archive Team:
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=URLTeam
They are scraping every single URL from every single URL shortener and trying to archive the
real links hidden behind them.