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Old 02-06-2009, 03:59 PM   #16
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Here is a video of Google Books Mobile on the iPhone.
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Old 02-06-2009, 09:17 PM   #17
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The page doesn't display on the Kindle, in either mode. I also tried sending the URL through a couple of mobile web reformatters with no success.
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Old 02-07-2009, 06:45 PM   #18
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Loaded the url http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/ in my Kindle and got nothing but a blank page.
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Old 02-07-2009, 06:57 PM   #19
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its Nice.. but rather annoying to read in, lots of scolling, and they should make an Iphone aplication so they can get click to scroll
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The page doesn't display on the Kindle, in either mode. I also tried sending the URL through a couple of mobile web reformatters with no success.
For public domain books on Kindle, you wouldn't want images of pages, anyway. Kindle will read the formatted copies of those files available from other sources (manybooks.net, feedbooks.com, etc.)
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Old 02-08-2009, 08:38 AM   #21
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I've commented on this regarding Amazon's Kindle for cellphone program, as well: Converting their service to be accessible to cellphones is double-plus-good. Actually building it so it only works on one cellphone--iPhone, which uses non-standard browsers--is decidedly double-plus-ungood. Not everyone owns an iPhone (I own an LG Dare), and such a system is shutting out everyone else in favor of a proprietary design.

If we don't free ourselves of proprietarianism, we're going to waste another 20 years getting this e-book thing right.
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Old 02-08-2009, 05:16 PM   #22
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Works quite well on my Nokia N810.
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Old 02-09-2009, 03:00 AM   #23
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It sounds like a good thing, sadly, I only get a blank screen on my PDA.
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Actually building it so it only works on one cellphone--iPhone, which uses non-standard browsers--is decidedly double-plus-ungood. Not everyone owns an iPhone (I own an LG Dare), and such a system is shutting out everyone else in favor of a proprietary design.
Nothing proprietary about safari on the iPhone. It's a scaled-down version of safari for "big" computes such as the Mac or a PC, lacking only Flash support, I think.
No, I suspect it has something to do with javascript. The site http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/ is based on frames, with the content of the content frame being loaded with a JS call. Which means that if your mobile browser doesn't support JS, you're SOL.
My SonyEricsson P1i has an integrated browser (read: proprietary) that does not like the google books mobile site either
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Works quite well on my Nokia N810.
doesn't work on my N800 OS2008 latest build. Did you cahnge your User Agent in the browser to the Apple UA in order to get it to work?
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