Three, count ‘em, three chapters of PEGASUS
NOTE FROM AUGUST 30TH: DON’T USE THE ORIGINAL LINK FROM THIS POST (BELOW). THIS ONE IS MUCH BETTER AND EASIER TO READ: http://www.scribd.com/doc/36512923/Robin-McKinley-Esampler
Here:
http://issuu.com/penguinyoungreaders/docs/robin_mckinley_esampler
Knock yourselves out. Please.*
And, while you’re at it, feedback would be welcome about how easy (or otherwise) you find it to navigate and read. Hint: I find it neither. I’m asking Putnams to please sort it anyway, but reader reaction is always good for the bolstering of a viewpoint that is not going to be popular.
I’ve already asked the mods for their reaction, and Maren has come up with these suggestions for the untechie-minded like yours truly for making the experience a little less like [MMMGLRMNTH: censored to keep Robin out of trouble]:
1. The default view you’re in when the page loads is called “magazine view.” When you zoom in while in magazine view and it goes all jumpy, click the button at the top that I suppose looks like an eye? It’s between the envelope and the +/- slider. When you click on the eye, you get a menu that says “read” and “drag.” Counterintuitively, you are already in “read” and you want to switch to “drag”–it will stop jumping around.
2. OR before you even zoom in, hover your cursor over the button at top left between Fullscreen and the globe. (I don’t care for the wordless buttons at all, either.**) This will allow you to choose either “presentation view” or “paper view.” Presentation view displays one page at a time and you have to click the arrows every time you want to turn the page. The page still moves when your mouse does, but only vertically. Paper view is closer to a .pdf file–you get the whole document at once and scroll like normal. The text is a bit blurry in paper view, though–it looks best to me at 125 or 150%, but still not great. To get out of paper view again, click the button to the right of the search box at the top.
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* The beginnings of both SUNSHINE and CHALICE are excerpted there too^, but you’ve all read them already, right?^^
^ Not very eptly.
^^ I still think the idea of an author blog is a bit bizarre. She eats! She sleeps! She has hellhounds (and ME)! Who cares! I’m going to go read some fiction!
** This was one of my original complaints about it. How are we supposed to know? Telepathy?
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