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Will Safari work with the Amazon Kindle DX?
With the announcement of the Kindle DX, will you be updating Safari to work with it? I have been mulling a subscription, and this would seem to be an ideal pairing.
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Inappropriate?We'd love to see Safari on the Kindle too. But that's not up to us. Please let Amazon know that you'd like this.2 Comments
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Thanks for the fast answer! One more question, do you know if the DX's native pdf support will have problems with the Safari pdf's? -
I'd love this, too. I created a discussion topic for this in Amazon's Kindle forum hoping to encourage them to open discussions with O'Reilly about the potential. Seems like it would be a big win for everyone.
You can find the discussion topic here:
I want O'Reilly Safari Subscriptions on Kindle -
Inappropriate?We are still trying to get our hands on a Kindle DX to do some testing. However, we have experienced no problem with loading and reading Safari Books Online PDFs on other PDF readers/programs.1 Comment Add a comment
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Any updates on this, now that there are DXs out and about?
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Inappropriate?Yes. We got a Kindle DX last week and have been testing it. The Safari PDFs we have tested look great and our mobile site - m.safaribooksonline.com - looks great on the Kindle DX browser, too. For more info, there is an article about it on our Safari Books Online support portal. You can read it here: http://bit.ly/18nF4H3 Comments Add a comment
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It works, but is fairly sluggish - which isn't too surprising. I also had to go to Desktop Mode to log in, then could switch to Basic Mode. I kept getting a JavaScript error when trying to access the login page in Basic Mode.
It also won't retain my username/password, so unfortunately, I have to enter that each time I want to use it. It would help if we could specify a username for our Safari accounts rather than having to use an email address for the username - that would speed up the process.
My Kindle also crashed and rebooted when I tried to go to the next page in one of the m.safaribooksonline.com books. Hopefully just a fluke. -
This is great feedback. I will forward to the dev team and make sure the knowledge base article is updated. For future reference, you can send emails directly to the m.safaribooksonline.com dev team at safarimobile@safaribooksonline.com Thanks. John
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Thank you, John! I really like the improvements made on safaribooksonline a couple of months ago and your post here was what I needed to make the decision on buying the kindle.
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Inappropriate?The only way I will buy a Kindle is if they get O'Reilly Safari on it.
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