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Slashdot

by Open Source Technology Group Format: Kindle Edition
1.8 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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Slashdot is a source for technology-related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues. This blog also features science-related news, with topics ranging from stem cell research to space travel.

Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle contain full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day.

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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 18, 2018
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ November 17, 2007
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Source Technology Group (November 18, 2018)
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000OCXOZ2
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  • Jim Brown
    1.0 out of 5 stars News for liberals, conservatives need not hang around
    Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2021
    Slashdot used to be tech oriented, now it's mostly gone political with a few tech stories that only they fit some echo chamber political narrative. Any dissenters get modded into the dirt. Anything that makes a certain political party look bad will never be seen here. Too bad they couldn't just keep with tech stories.
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  • Jindo Fox
    2.0 out of 5 stars Just headlines and teasers.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2008
    It's possible I'm missing the point of reading blogs on the Kindle, but these "subscriptions" don't do much for me. I like the Kindle for its easy OFFLINE reading capabilities, and I use the wireless only when I'm actively fetching something to read offline. This works very well for books and newspapers, but blogs are more dynamic and really belong in an always-online browser or an always-offline reader. I suppose that's why the price is so low, but in this case, you're getting less than what you pay for.

    The Kindle edition of Slashdot fails at both online and offline reading: Headlines and capsule summaries are automatically downloaded whenever the site updates and my wireless switch is turned on, but to actually read the content, I need to fire up the (slow, monochrome) browser and fetch it from the web site.

    The whole point of the /. site is to be linked to interesting tech stories, so it would be helpful to see TFA ("The Fine Article," as the slashdotters would say) with the downloaded content.

    The same goes for reading the always-amusing reader comments on the site -- they aren't downloaded automatically, and paging through the sorted comments is a chore without a mouse or keyboard.

    This half-online, half-offline approach is like the worst of all worlds. Until the delivery method is improved to the point that it sends the full data set, I'll stick to reading Slashdot in my browser or via Google Reader Mobile on my cell phone.
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  • Andrew Burgess
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not perfect but worth it
    Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2009
    Yes, you can browse slashdot with the experimental browser but because of the small screen you have to page many times to skip the menus and buttons to get to the text. For $2/month it's worth it to buy the Kindle version.

    Two HUGE improvements could be made to this product.

    One, include a copy of the original article (perhaps there are legal reasons that you cannot edit and repost a web page, I don't know). Yes you can use the browser but see the small screen limitations above.

    Two (most important), comments to the item are not included. If you read slashdot you know that one in ten comments are gems worth reading. It's sad not to see these. And believe me once you use the browser a few times to see them you just won't bother.

    All in all, I like it and will continue past the 14 day free trial.

    HTH
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  • Bjørn Andre Kaland
    1.0 out of 5 stars stoped working
    Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2017
    no blog update since 8th of august 2016. please fix this asap. I tried getting amazon support to resolve this for me without any luck
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  • Jon P.
    1.0 out of 5 stars Too link heavy and not enough content
    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2008
    I've only had the Kindle for a couple of weeks and I've been trying a lot of different blogs. The content on Slashdot is okay, but I have since switched to other blogs to try and get the same information.

    The information is good, but the link-heavy nature of this blog just makes it too distracting to read on the Kindle... at least for me. There are a lot of entries where I'd like to get more information and I end up having to click into the entry and fire up the beta-browser. This is just a clumsy approach and hitting the WhisperNet for this information is slow.

    It seems to me if you subscribed to the blog, you should get the full story, not just the links.

    Maybe I'm getting too old or I'm just a bit too impatient, but this seems to be an issue with several blogs I've tried; hopefully they'll figure out how to clean them up with more experience. Until then, there are other blogs that are a bit cleaner to read.

    Now if we could just get Amazon to let us RE-evaluate blogs for free every 3-4 months without paying, as the content get better. :-/
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  • Ali Tuna
    4.0 out of 5 stars Concise Updates on Tech News
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2008
    I am recommending this blog for a single effective property that makes it outstand among the other tech blogs: It gives the readers short snapshots of tech-related news from newspapers and magazines. The authors generally do not include their subjective comments in their posts.

    An Area that can be Improved: I think the URL's of the original articles the posts are based on should be included inside the snapshots. All of the posts were in quotes, but I was not able to figure out what the authors' sources were. Then I checked out the website on my computer, and I saw that I could access the original article via three more clicks from the main page.

    P.S. I also was not able to vote on the "What Law Affects You Most" poll on my Kindle. But I did vote on the website. I suggest you check out the webpage and submit your vote as well. The options are: Newton's, Kepler's, Murphy's, Moore's, Common, Natural, CowboyNeal's.
    4 people found this helpful
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  • JC
    1.0 out of 5 stars Almost no content
    Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2009
    I was very disappointed in this. While other blog subscriptions (for example ScienceBlogs which I enjoy) give full content, this only provides headlines with none of the back-and-forth arguments that make slashdot interesting. Very glad I could cancel without charge.
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