book chunking keyhole

"Balog Pal" <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Oct 2003 00:18:02 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.keyholes
Message-ID <00d801c38a0b$f14fd480$65bf9f81@bpnt>
http://search.safaribooksonline.com

it is an e-library, you can read books, online.   [currently it has a month
free trial]

The content of the books I read into is split to very small chunks.  With
physical books the content of a page is limited -- for an E-book i found a
convenient chunk is some 3-10 printed book pages big.    That pretty well
maps to chapters or items of a regular book.

Here on safari chunks are way smaller.  Closer to a single page -- some just
have a few lines.    On top of that the site is pretty slow, and is is
surrounded by the site's framework, so a web page is 50k (only the html
text, not counting pictures, etc), and that holds around 1k of the real
stuff I'm there for.  [I saw chunks having as much as 2 lines of text.]
Huge waste of technical and human resources.

I find it extremely annoying to read, use, navigate that way, really like
reading the book through a keyhole.

Paul