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Fort Worth Star-Telegram [Kindle Edition]

by The McClatchy Company
2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews) |
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is the newspaper of choice in Fort Worth, Texas and surrounding Tarrant County area, which comprises the western portion of the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington Metroplex.

The Kindle edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper provides most articles found in the daily print and online edition, but will not include all images and tables. Also, some features such as the crossword puzzles, box scores and classifieds are not yet available. Issues of the Star-Telegram are automatically delivered wirelessly to your Kindle starting at 3:30 AM Fort Worth local time.

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  • Publisher: The McClatchy Company
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • ASIN: B002IT5MX6
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,686 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
I am a former subscriber of the print edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, but I had recently canceled due to delivery inconsistencies. I liked the content of the paper, but they just couldn't get it to me before I left for work in the morning. When I saw that it was available for the Kindle, I thought that I had solved my problem by taking the delivery person out of the equation. However, it didn't work out as I had hoped.

The Sports section was my primary reason for reading a newspaper, but the Kindle edition is only a shell of what you get in print. In addition to no box scores readers will also be lacking the basic score information for the previous day for any game that does not have a story associated with it. Also the standings for the major leagues are nowhere to be found either. The columns are the same, and the local coverage of the Cowboys, Mavericks, etc. is sufficient. However I don't want to have to go elsewhere to finish off my sports fix. If that's the case, I'll get the national perspective from ESPN or some other source.

The other issue I found that made me crazy was the organization of stories. For the 1/24 Sunday edition, there was no Life & Arts section; however, I did find a story that should have been under this label under the National category. This was not a onetime thing either as one of the weekday editions had a Jay Leno/Tonight Show story under the National category.

For these reasons, the Kindle edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram does not work for me. Unless you want just articles with a sometimes unintuitive organization, pass on this one.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
I guess that the first reviewer is correct: that for one dollar more per month you may access all of the Star-Telegram on the computer.

However, I look at it a little bit differently. When I am traveling, with my Kindle, it is very nice to be able to read the Kindle edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, whether you are in an airplane, or sitting on a porch overlooking a lake.

True, no classified ads, cartoons or coupons, but it appears to have most of the written content. Mind, it IS the Star-Telegram, so it is not like the newspaper suddenly improves in quality simply due to being on a Kindle. However, I like to read many of the opinion articles, and they even have letters to the editor and the `jeers and cheers'.

Due to frequently traveling I was often unable to read the Star-Telegram. Now, with the Kindle edition, I may do so. I am even contemplating cancelling the paper edition and going solely with the Kindle edition.

My biggest difficulty has been in deciding how many `stars' to award the Kindle edition of the Star-Telegram. For the paper edition I would give `three' stars. I guess due to the convenience of having it on the Kindle, I will give it another star, hence four.

UPDATED November 17, 2011: The Star-Telegram on the Kindle Fire is excellent! Much easier to navigate between sections, turn pages, and even has some colored photographs. Plus, the Fire edition has some items I did not notice on the old Kindle version, such as a listing detailing who would be on what talk show that day (from Wendy Williams to Jon Stewart).
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
East of 360 February 14, 2010
I thought the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram in the Kindle format was fine. The only reason I cancelled trial subscription is that I live east of 360 and I read about 40% of the content. The other 60% was not intreresting to because I live in the eastern half of the Metroplex. I knew it might be a problem before the trial subscription. I'm going to try a national paper. On a side note to cat lovers who fight with their felines while reading the paper, the Kindle will solve that problem. "meow"
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
At least I only wasted 50 cents.
Just spent 50 cents to see what it was like. Not sure why it is still available, unless they think they might get more suckers like me to drop half a buck to see what it is like. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Steve Duncan
SCAM & ABSOLUTE RIP OFF!!
YOU DO NOT GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR, THE ONLY PART OF THE NEWSPAPER YOU GET ARE THE PARTS YOU DON'T WANT. NO CLASSIFIEDS & DOES NOT EVEN RESEMBLE A NEWSPAPER.
Published 2 months ago by erick
Save your money.
Save your money. The content is duplicated several times and you never know if it is going to be posted, like today 11-2-11. Read more
Published 6 months ago by E Geer
Something changed
The content of the Kindle edition seems to have changed in past week (October 2011) in what looks like some kind of electronic inspired layout -- No longer resembles a news layout. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Stanley A. Russell
Kindle edition of the Star-Telegram is just fine
The Star-telegram has always been a progressive paper w/electronic access. Early 80's they had Star-Text...where we got the paper over a 300 baud modem. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Bissell J. Smith
NOT GOOD
Very little content to this paper. The Sunday paper of 20 March had less than twenty five articles in it and did not include a world section. The Austin paper is much better.
Published 14 months ago by T. McDaniels
NEWS TO USE
The Kindle edition content is broad enough to gain a sense of the events taking place within the community, gov., and business networks that interest me. Read more
Published 16 months ago by CR Craftsman
unhappy with ft. worth star telegram. kindle edition.
i am not impressed with the kindle star telegram. not all sections are included. i would have enjoyed the life section every day. articles are duplicated. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Kim
Star-Telegram v.s. Kindle
This is a e-mail that sent the Star-Telegram concerning the quality of the newspaper product and Kindle,
Dear Mr. Read more
Published 20 months ago by dogmom
Redundant AND Repetitous
I'm cancelling my subscription today because I am sick and tired of the Kindle version having two or three duplicte copies of every other story. Read more
Published on May 11, 2010
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