CharlesR comments on What is the best way to read the sequences? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CharlesR 17 June 2012 04:43:05AM 4 points [-]

They are also available in EPub and Kindle.

Comment author: ciphergoth 17 June 2012 07:19:01AM 4 points [-]

This is, unsurprisingly, also my strong recommendation: chronological order, on a Kindle or similar. At the start, they're just a bunch of interesting random blog posts; my feeling is that they really "get going" around the post "Feeling Rational".

If you don't already have an ebook reader, I strongly recommend one; I hardly buy books for mine at all, but do things like send it PDFs, or use "SendToKindle" to send it longer web pages to read as I travel to work. OTOH I spend around 8 hrs a week on public transport.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 17 June 2012 08:59:08AM 1 point [-]

Thirding the recommendation for chronological order. I'm in the middle of re-reading them using FBReader on my Android phone. The 6M full sequences with images epub does take a very noticeable time to get loaded into memory whenever the FBReader app has swapped out. Also it doesn't show some semantically meaningful formatting like text with strikethrough. Bullet lists which used autonumbering bullets in the original are converted into plain bullets, but the subsequent text sometimes refers to the missing numbers.

Comment author: ciphergoth 17 June 2012 11:41:30AM 0 points [-]

Try reading the ePub with Aldiko? I don't think it has these issues.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 17 June 2012 12:08:39PM 0 points [-]

Tried Aldiko 2.1.0 on HTC Desire, it prints a generic error message every time when trying to open or import the file. FBReader was also failing to open the file to begin with until a recent upgrade.

Comment author: ciphergoth 17 June 2012 02:33:00PM 0 points [-]

Argh :(