Life In 19x19

This is slightly tangential but...

@smartgo: Please add an RSS feed to the newest books page. I know I'll subscribe to it.

Charlie wrote:@smartgo: Please add an RSS feed to the newest books page. I know I'll subscribe to it.

Good point, would be helpful. Involves some work due to the way I'm generating the web site.

Bit late, but I wanted to express my appreciation for the SmartGo Books version of Invincible! I already had the hardcover edition, but it's one of those books that I am almost too afraid to *really* study, because of how "precious" it is and I never want to expose it to coffee, cat paws and other such things that books love to attract. I had planned to get a soft cover edition for studying, but it's awesome that I could now get it for the iPad instead.

The SmartGo Books library has really grown to be a major asset. Thanks for all the work that has gone, and will go, into it. It has made the iPad so very worthwhile.

HKA wrote:Yeah, great. Thanks ALOT Anders.

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And now...serously....again?

You want this book in SmartGo Books format, and I will explain why.

I've long been a beta tester of SmartGo products beginning with SmartGo for Windows. I was pleased to be asked to review Invincible in digital format before it went to publication. While all of the SmartGo Books are great, if you were to own only one of them, I'd say to buy this one even if you have the paper version.

I purchased Invincible in softcover in 1997, and I struggled through a few sections from time to time with a go board in front of me and yunzi stones so I could turn them over during variations and have a fighting chance of reconstructing the game position to move on with the rest of the game. The paper book is great, but the diagrams are densely packed by necessity in order to fit so much content into just one book. While reading it with a board is possible, the moves aren't always easy to find, and the interruption of looking for a move that you don't find immediately destroys the flow. That isn't the case with the SmartGo Books format.

I know you have an iPad. The program is free and there are samples for every book. Don't take my word for it.

1. Download the app
2. Read the sample
3. Be amazed.

It's that simple.

Terri

Some days ago i bought an Ipad 3. Invincible was my first buy.

I want to thank John Mifsud for his wonderful work. So many diagrams (much more than in the original book), i appreciate your endurance.

I have the paperback and always regreted the fact that I only replayed a few games. It always seemed like hard work to take the thick book and work through the diagrams with a board and stones.

Now on the iPad it's a different story. You can replay the moves within the diagrams and also try out your own variations - nice.

Thanks to all involved, appreciate it!

SmartGo Books really spoils me for paper or non-interactive books. I picked up a couple Backgammon books and I keep thinking to myself, "Wouldn't it be great if they were like SmartGo Books?". This would also be superb for chess books.