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Hey there,
I was wondering. I must not be the only one who enjoys reading her stories on a tablet. The best way of reading it so far that i found is the printable version, but as that is only for the actual stories and not for browsing the site...
Have any of you found other solutions to this, and if not, would it be possible to throw a stylesheet/theme/template on the drupal installation that allows formatting for tablets and other mobile devices?
Love,
Amber
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The way I roll
I use an I-device so that most blogs/stories come up as plain text when I engage the "reader function" beyond that, it's good eyesight and zooming in/double tapping to auto size to blocks of text(both are features when using safari)
Though trying to post things can be interesting...
IE Reader Mode and Responsive Pages
For Microsoft Windows 8.1 Tablet Devices, Internet Explorer also has a reader-mode. which is great for the stories. IT manages to place the main article text of the story page into an ebook style format for reading on tablet devices.
There have been plans in the past for us to re-work the BigCloset theme into a responsive framework so that things will auto-fold into a format fitting your screen width, but with the past instabilities, we spent most our time working on fixing servers and software reliability.
thanks, i can see how
thanks, i can see how stability would be a huge factor in getting that changed with the site itself.
I'll try out opera as was mentioned above (i'm on android), but i'd prefer to keep using chrome as that can grab the open tabs that i have on my desktop pc.
Some useful tips here that i'll be sure to try out, thanks again!
Amber
The following is only for
The following is only for Android devices.
I usually read using the Opera Browser on my my tablet as it has a text reflow feature, so when I zoom the page I don't have to keep side scrolling. Before I used the Dolphin browser but after Google removed the text wrap function from the webview in the Android 4.4 it rendered most browsers unable to reflow text when zooming a page. Thankfully Opera still does that. The Dolphin browser when using the jetpack still reflow text but not as efficiently as the Opera Browser, specially when rendering the bigcloset posts (only reflow in the text in the printer friendly page), where Opera reflow the text everywhere is needed.
I hope this helps.
Hugs,
Andrea
I agree
I like reading on my tablet (Sony S using Opera) so much, I prefer it to dead trees. The width is a nice size for reading, and the ability to adjust text size and contrast/brightness etc. is great.
Use a browser for ongoing stuff
and usually collect stories into a text file then produce an epub so I can use a reader program on my android tablet to read.
iReader
I use my iphone. I have good eyesight and its pretty much required.
The text here on BCTS is scaled quite well, but on fictionmania even my excellent vision has difficulties.
I haven't tried opera but I'll look into it.
I would upgrade to a larger tablet if I had the money.
Dayna.
If you want a good, cheap
If you want a good, cheap tablet to read, browse the web and even play some games I would recommend the nook HD (7 inches) or the nook hd+ (8.9 inch full HD)
I have the HD+ and I'm pretty happy with it. The stock ROM comes with support to Google play so you can even install the Kindle app if you want.
Or you can install then Cyanogenmod 11 and get the latest almost stock android experience without all the bloatware. That's what I did.
Opera Classic (12, Presto based, not 15+ which are Blink based)
I use my Android tablet exclusively for e-/webfiction these days. I prefer to use Opera with a nighttime mode bookmarklet* (Changes styles to light grey text on black background) with the printer-friendly version (or HTML-version for FM) of the stories. Opera is great for this thanks to it‘s superior text reflow tech. It also has a nice feature for saving of pages locally for when you have unreliable internet (I have a WiFi only tablett, no mobile network support, so this is often the case when on the go.).
Though for some stories that I want to save for reading as an E-book, I prefer to do an EPUB conversion ( http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub ) and then use MoonReader+ for reading, like Penny Lane's SEE or Megan Campbell's Sarah Carerra stories.
And as a third option, I use HTTrack to mirror a whole site, and kWS as local server, for places that are effectively static like Sapphire's Palace or the Crystal Hall, though these I access through Opera as if they were live sites.
*Nighttime mode bookmarklet is javascript:{{code example removed due to breaking the page]] if you find that useful.