Re: why isn't p.g. being user-friendly?
Marcello Perathoner <marcello-ULrl/Sucve/[email protected]>
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On 10/30/2012 02:06 PM, Alex Buie wrote: > CMIIW, but don't you have to manually add an email address to the > "approved" list before it can send things to your kindle? This is how > it was back with my K2 and K3, not sure if they changed it for fire. My default email worked right out of the box. > If so, it would be trivial to have a system where a "user" can specify > the username that the email comes from as part of clicking the > send-to-kindle button. (Like, a text field or something). So I > whitelisted alex.buie123-uYXPxKneO0/[email protected], and someone else > whitelists bowerbird321-uYXPxKneO0/[email protected], etc, so you have to know > someone's "secret key" in order to send a book to their kindle. That means people would have to authorize one random *@gutenberg.org address on their Amazon account, then remember that address and re-enter it at the gutenberg.org site, plus they have to remember their Kindle email address and enter that one too. That is 3 steps to get right, and quite incomprehensible steps for a non-tech user too. I think it will be a big user-interface fiasco and as user-friendly as Greenland is by Australia. That data would still be too sensitive to leave on an open system like ibiblio. All in all I think it is not worth the candle, but if you want to implement that on readingrooms I'll be glad to put a link on the bibrec pages, with the appropriate parameters, so it would be one click from the bibrec page to your "login" page. Still the wrong solution politically. Regards -- Marcello Perathoner [email protected] _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d-4LCm/o+qPMZ96Xl/[email protected] http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d