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New Safari Books Online Website - Step Backward
Safari.OReilly new Website is step backword. Old website was very user friendly. The new website has many problem.
This question is for all the people who feel this way and can provide more negative features in the new website.
This question is for all the people who feel this way and can provide more negative features in the new website.
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Inappropriate?Ashwani-
Thanks for posting this. We do appreciate customer feedback. If you have specific issues with the new version, please let us know. You can reach us at customer-service@safaribooksonline.com.
Thank you for taking the time.
John -
Inappropriate?I can't read any book on iPhone any more, I used to enjoy reading on the move. Now this is over.
In addition some lists are not fully viewable on the iPhone like my bookshelf, I can only see the top 4 books only
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Inappropriate?Safari Books Online's mobile-friendly website - m.safaribooksonline.com - offers full book content, optimized to reflow within your mobile device's browsers.
There were no recent changes to m.safaribooksonline.com. If you are experiencing problems, please contact customer-service@safaribooksonline.com. -
Inappropriate?m.safaribooksonline.com works on my iPhone. I use it every night before bed.
The only issue is that if you don't set a bookmark before you are done reading for the night, when you go back to read, the page is blank and a refresh doesn't bring you back to page you were on before. So you have to go back to your bookmark.1 Comment
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FYI. There is a "Last Viewed Page" link on the mobile site home page, too. -
Inappropriate?For me the new design is a disaster. As an OpenBSD user I can no longer see any
of my books since Adobe does not have a flash player for this OS. I have a Nokia
N800 that can see the mobile version but it is not how I mostly access the site and of course navigating the site is brutal; e.g. if I go to my favourites (where I have about 50 books) it shows them a few at a time so I have to keep finding and clicking the next button. (The non-mobile site has also adopted this horrible feature and I can find no setting to change the number of books shown per page.) I'm not on dial-up any more and I liked the old "my favourites"page much more where I could see everything at once. (I know with the new site I could create folders to manage my books and reduce clicking but c'mon,there's only fifty. Why does implementing a new design require that you throw
out what was convenient with the old system?)
For me the beauty of the safari site was that I could access it from any javascript
capable browser so if the machine had a gui I had a good chance of reading my
books where ever I was. Now I have two Windows work machines and my mobile device that can see the site, and they are not the computers I normally use with the site.
If anyone has any non-flash tricks that will let me use the site, please let me know,
otherwise it's back to (public library) paper for me...
Thanks,
Kenny
I’m frustrated
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Since we launched, we have heard that some users would like a return to HTML view. Therefore, yesterday we decided to do just that. The HTML view will be available as an option as soon as possible. Stay tuned.
If you have specific questions, please contact me directly at jchodacki@safaribooksonline.com or our support team at customer-service@safaribooksonline.com. -
That's good news. Thanks for the info.
Kenny -
Inappropriate?I've cancelled my safari account because I can't bear the new interface
I have flash - but find the viewing window stupidly small in the new layout - it's marginally better if I switch to fullscreen view but then I loose all the navigation (and I have enough horizontal screenspace to spare)
Well if Safari do fix this problem maybe I'll resubscribe then.
I’m very annoyed
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