[Web4lib] Amazon's Kindle e-book reader

Robert Sullivan robert.g.sullivan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 17:02:14 EST 2007


> print prices. And contrary to a third comment, the device will display
> html as well as other formats, besides the proprietary format used for
> the material Amazon sells. Since one of the chief appeals of these sorts
> of readers, to my mind, is that they make accessible the huge and
> steadily growing mass of freely available etext, on a device that's more
> manageable than a laptop and more readable than a
> Palm/Blackberry/cellphone, etc., that last aspect is critical. Add that

I looked at the Basic Web documentation:

<http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200137070>

but did not see anything about CSS support.  Has anyone heard anything
about that?

-- 
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library


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