The Life of Honinbo Shuei

[oren]

The issue was that in all the Kindle sample pages I received from Amazon the board display was very small, difficult to read, while the text was disproportionately big (For the text this was solved to an extent by tweaking the settings) I don't own an actual kindle but use the kindle reader on a mac, so not sure if this is mitigated somewhat by actually reading it on the device.

I looked at it on both my PC and Nexus 7 and the boards were great on both.

It is a great product.

[SoDesuNe]

The issue was that in all the Kindle sample pages I received from Amazon the board display was very small, difficult to read, while the text was disproportionately big :sad: (For the text this was solved to an extent by tweaking the settings) I don't own an actual kindle but use the kindle reader on a mac, so not sure if this is mitigated somewhat by actually reading it on the device.

I almost exclusively use my Galaxy SII to replay Shuei's games and even there the diagrammes are big enough to read them with ease =)

[Mage]

Shuei is coming to SmartGo Books, conversion in progress. Most likely Life, Games, and Commentaries will be combined into a single book, making it both more readable and affordable. iPad recommended, but iPhone will work too.

This is great news ! I will in most certainty buy it and maybe make it an excuse to get an iPad soon

@Oren, SoDesuNe : That's interesting. I'm guessing it may then have something to do with screen ratios or something on my retina MBP. This is a screenshot of what I see :

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Not sure if the picture does justice, but compared to the page, the diagram is very small and the move numbering not very (readily) visible to me. Am I just growing old and in need of glasses ?

[SoDesuNe]

Yeah, there is something wrong. On my screen the diagramme is as wide as the text.

[oren]

Could you have the text on super huge font and maybe that is distorting the image in comparison?

[Mage]

Could you have the text on super huge font and maybe that is distorting the image in comparison?

That was my first suspicion as well, so I tried that. When I reduce the font size what happens is that the text shrinks..shrinks..into a smaller portion of the page (rest of the page is now just blank) while the diagram remains at the same size and unreadable

This is something much closer to what I actually see on-screen :

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[lobotommy]

Shuei is coming to SmartGo Books, conversion in progress. Most likely Life, Games, and Commentaries will be combined into a single book, making it both more readable and affordable. iPad recommended, but iPhone will work too.

This is great news ! I will in most certainty buy it and maybe make it an excuse to get an iPad soon

Great news indeed! I bought "Life..." through Amazon lately and was not sure if I could resist buying next volumes in kindle format. But those prices! THOSE AMAZON HIGH TAX PRICES! this "thing" was like a bucket of cold water every time I thought about hiting a "buy button". So I'm waiting eagerly for SmartGo edition of Games&Commentaries, even though I will miss a dictionary and highligter features from kindle app. Oh well, it seems everything can't be perfect

@ smartgo: maybe there is a chance for an update with access to iOS system dictionary right from SmartGo Books? It will help a lot for non native speakers (like myself).

[aconley]

I more or less have the opposite problem on my RMBP -- the
diagram is a lot bigger, taking up most of the room so that
I have to page back and forth between the comments and the
diagram. But this can be changed by setting the font controls.
I just don't want the bother of keeping different settings
for different books.

Now, if Amazon would only include higher resolution fonts
so books would stop looking like crap on a RMBP...

[Uberdude]

I just bought a non-Kindle eReader (Kobo Aura One). Is it possible to read JF's Shuei books on this? It can open epub so I think the answer is probably: easily: no, legally: no, morally: yes (by installing a PC kindle program, buying the book there and then removing the DRM with a process like https://www.epubor.com/transfer-kindle- ... -kobo.html (illegal but moral IMO if it's just so I can read it on my device rather than share with the world)).

[oren]

I just bought a non-Kindle eReader (Kobo Aura One). Is it possible to read JF's Shuei books on this? It can open epub so I think the answer is probably: easily: no, legally: no, morally: yes (by installing a PC kindle program, buying the book there and then removing the DRM with a process like https://www.epubor.com/transfer-kindle- ... -kobo.html (illegal but moral IMO if it's just so I can read it on my device rather than share with the world)).

Yeah, I've ripped all the DRM off my kindle books and save them. It's definitely possible. I use calibre and dedrm. You should then be able to install on the Kobo. Ironically I have to do this since I have a Kindle but it's tied to a Japanese account, so to get US books on there, I rip and install.

[mccccc]

I'm thinking about a present for my friend (Go player) who learns Japanese. And I found a book, see below. I guess I shouldn't present it to him if the book by John includes much of it.