Reading the magazine?

Please try to read the current issue of MRH (Standard Edition) on it and tell us how it goes.

Tablet

Don't know if I posted this before.

I have the Dell Streak 7 tablet with Android 3.2,  Honeycomb, and it works very well with the Standard Edition.

Rich

Reading the MRH mag with the Kindle Fire

Tried it and YUCK!!!  It can be done but is very painful _ MUCH zooming and panning...VERY slow and painful!   Thankfully that's not the reason I purchased it.  My main uses are email, web surfing, music, games, and videos.

Rick

WP site on Fire

Rick, when you get a moment may I ask you to take a look at my blog site and tell me how it looks on your Fire? Is it easy to read and navigate? Does the Kindle This Post function work correctly?

Thanks,

Learning curve

Like almost anything else, There is a learning curve when using a tablet.

Remember using your first DCC system as compared to a DC powered layout.

I am over seventy so I know what I am talking about.

Rich

From the Popular Science review

From the Popular Science review:

This is too bad ... the 7-inch screen just doesn't work all that well for regular-sized PDFs - even though we format our mag to be landscape instead of portrait. Unfortunately, we're not likely to create a specially formatted version of MRH for smaller screens. So far all the versions use the same layout, just variations on a theme so creating them is possible from a single common master.

Doesn't sound any worse than reading MRH on a smartphone, however.

Tablets and PDF's...

That's what I was afraid of - it looks like my insistance on a 10.1" screen, while expensive, is correct.

I can't comprehend doing this... books, sure, but that's because they're all text and my e-book reader formats it.

Yep the iPad is still the king

Yep, the iPad is still the king. Reading MRH on an iPad 10" screen is pure delight.

The text is very readable, and it's easy to do on the couch, in the "reading room" on the throne, or in bed.

And on top of that, I have every issue loaded on my iPad, so I can carry my entire magazine collection with me.

Tablets are definitely the future - Apple expects to sell 4x the number of iPads in the next 18 months that they've already sold, mushrooming the number of iPads from the current 40 million to over 200 million.

WP on fire

Alan, Your website looked great on the Kindle. Rick

New Fangled

Rick,

I have an app for that - - it's called a desktop computer - - - LOL!

New Fangled

David,

Go it - use it - love it (well sort of).  I really like my Kindle to read the forum posts on MRH but will continue to use my laptop for the other stuff.

Rick

RE WP on Fire

Thank you Rick. You are the first person I *know* with a Fire that could have a look at the site.

Alan, I agree with Rick -

Alan, I agree with Rick - your site was very readable (I used landscape mode).

Thanks Bill

Nice to know my site works on the Fire. I recently installed a widget that provides an alternate format for smart phones. That I could test myself and it works swell.

Posting this from a Fire

Kindle & plain text editor

Joe,

I noticed the same thing with my Kindle Fire.  When posting and I click in the "Subject" field the Kindle's keyboard comes us; however, when in the body field it does not unless you switch to the plain text editor.  Workable, but not wonderful.

Rick

Best way to read MRH on a Kindle Fire

Okay, we have a Kindle Fire and we've been testing it - and we've found the best way to read MRH on the device.

First - don't try the online edition - it will drive you nuts with all the weird scrolling and zooming on the small screen. It does not work very well at all on such a small screen.

USE THE FLASH DOWNLOAD HELPER

Use the download wizard (yes, the Flash download helper works fine on the Kindle Fire) and download the Mac version to your Kindle Fire.

You can read the magazine with Adobe's PDF reader, but that's not the best one because hyperlinks don't work.

GET THE 99 CENT ezPDF APP

Get the 99 cent ezPDF app from the app store. The hyperlinks will work in ezPDF, and the magazine is quite readable on the screen without zooming in landscape orientation, although you do need to slide the page up slightly to read the bottom or slide it down slightly to read the top - but it's very readable.

The hyperlinks are a bit tricky, however. You need to tap squarely on a hyperlink and hold your finger down for about 1 second, then lift it - and you should get a pop-up saying you are about to take a link - OK or cancel.

If you tap the back button on the bottom of the screen, it takes you back to the page you left - so even going out to a web site and then going back to the magazine works well.

WITH PRACTICE, TAPPING LINKS CAN WORK GOOD

It takes a little practice to get the link tap technique down in ezPDF, but once you get the hang of it, most of the time you can get the links to work first time. The small nav bar links seem to take some finess, however - we can get them to work about 75% of the time - the rest of the time the tap selects the text for annotation, which isn't quite what we wanted.

Also, pinch out to enlarge and pinch in to reduce the screen image works great.

WATCH FOR A VIDEO DEMO SOON

While the links take a little practice, we're pleased the magazine text is very readable in ezPDF (and Adobe Reader) on the 7" screen in landscape. For $199, it's quite a deal.

We'll make a video soon demonstrating all this so you can see it in action.

Where is file?

Joe., thanks for instructions. I downloaded the December issued on the Kindle Fire (watched the bar move across as the download occurred) and now can not find the file on the device...any thoughts?

Thanks,

John

KF HD USB storage?

I bought the Mrs a KF HD version for under the tree.  Since it's hers I can't keep my MRHs on there.  I was wondering if I keep them on some type of USB style storage (thumb drive, portable HD etc) will I be able to read them on the the KF HD?   I'm not talking about all the time, just traveling etc

Steve

Downloading and finding the mag on Kindle Fire

Watch our ezPDF demo video closely and we explain how to find and open the PDF.

The download process part of the video demo starts at 4:20, once the download is finished around 6:00, we show you go into eZPDF and tap the All PDF folder and then tap the DOWN arrow to expand the folder and see its contents (otherwise, you will see nothing). Once you do that, you will see your issue you just downloaded. Watch the video closely - expand it to HD if you want to see it really well.

We also show you have to move the issue you just downloaded into a permanent MRH folder location so it's easier to find later. Again, pay very close attention to what we show to make sure you aren't missing any steps.

Kindl Fire HD

Thanks for the update.

I could not find the download wizard (yes, the Flash download helper works fine on the Kindle Fire) and download the Mac

GET THE 99 CENT ezPDF APP

The only .99 ezPDF App is Battling Ships from the different PDF apps listed.

Still looking.

Rich

New Fangled 2

I'm with you! I just spent about a grand on a barebones tower flat screen computer! Love it. That all said..I may have a ipad in my future. Not for awhile. Bottom line on this is the new format will be sweet for one and all, no matter what 'computer' you maybe using. Happy new year, Smoke

Fire as throttle

Rick,

You can also use the Kindle Fire as a throttle with JMRI.  To load  the app on the Fire go directly to the Engine Driver website and do a direct download.

http://enginedriver.rrclubs.org/

Enjoy,

Dave