157 of 162 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad but needs much improvement, August 18, 2008
This review is from: The Boston Globe (Kindle Edition)
Pros:
Electronic delivery
No paper to recycle
Sections are listed and presented for navigation
Entire paper is searchable
You can keep as many editions as you like (depends on your Kindle's storage).
You can resend any edition (back one week) via your Amazon Kindle account management page. Great if you accidently delete an edition.
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Cons:
Less content than paper edition (no comics, no classifieds, no coupons, few pictures, few obituaries).
No weather report or forecast
No league standings for ANY sports - an inexcusable omission!
Articles are not in the same order as paper edition
Some article appear twice in the same edition using different titles. Poor editing procedures.
Articles sometimes have programming codes left in them during the conversion process, again poor editing.
Boston Globe team can be late in delivering the Kindle edition (really, how hard can it be to deliver ONE computer file on time?)
Unusable web-links are sprinkled throughout articles. They do nothing but distract the reader. Probably residue left by the poor conversion and editing process.
You can't easily jump back an article if you inadvertently click past one. You have to either click back page-at-a-time (slow) or jump articles starting back from the section beginning (again slow). This can be quite a pain.
Amazon Kindle support isn't available until 9:00 AM EDT. This is a pain if Amazon's electronic delivery fails for the Boston Globe (happened to me once) and you need them to resend.
Hard to believe, but the Boston Globe's customer service department is unaware that they publish a kindle edition! Don't call them with delivery failures--they're completely clueless.
A recent change in the Kindle's format now has articles ending and beginning on same page rather than beginning on their own page as they did before. This makes navigation worse as it sometimes separates articles from their navigation links. Bad decision.
Price is too high at $9.99/month considering you're not getting everything the paper edition offers made worse by poor editing. I feel it should be closer to $5.
Overall it feels like the Boston Globe team takes the closest thing resembling an electronic edition and simply shoves it through the Kindle reformatting utility. It's apparent there's little effort to polish the Kindle edition.
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52 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finally! Easy to Read; Easy to Skim, March 15, 2008
This review is from: The Boston Globe (Kindle Edition)
I live in Boston and had been waiting for the Boston Globe to become available for the Kindle since mine arrived on December 4, 2007. I subscribed the first day I found out about it and have not been disappointed. I am not a big print newspaper fan, I find them environmentally unfriendly, dirty (think blank ink on hand), and they contain a lot of information I usually have no interest in (ads, sports, stock lists, etc.) so they are thicker than I need them to be and messy. I won't even take the two free papers offered at the subway on most days (the excellent Metro and the whiny bloggy Boston Now). On the other hand I find the web version of newspapers hard to drill down to find the articles that apply only to today - if you know the topic you can do a search but there's really no way to tell if I at least skimmed all the articles for the day.
Enter the Kindle edition which solves most of my complaints about the print and web edition of the Boston Globe, while all the material I am not interested in is still there it is easy to bypass and doesn't really cause any clutter or eat up resources (a few kb of disc space I guess). Some pictures are now beginning to appear too. The ads are gone (so unless you only buy the paper for the ads - some people do - you will be pleased). The Contents, Sections and Next Article layout is great. From the main page you can just skim all the headlines by hitting the next page button until you get to the end - and then you'll know you haven't missed any of today's headlines. If you want more detail you can select the headline link. You can then once finished reading the article (or deciding only to read some of it or none of it) easily hit the back button to return to the list, or if you've finished the article you can go forward directly to the next story (comes in handy in your favorite section if you know you want to read most articles there). The only thing that's missing is the comics and the death notices but you can read those on-line at the comic sites in the first case and the Globe's site in the case of death notices - if you really, really want to.
Good job.
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not What I Expected, January 1, 2009
This review is from: The Boston Globe (Kindle Edition)
The Boston Globe If you're looking for the real Boston Globe, unfortunately you won't get it here. The Boston Globe is my local newspaper, so I want the local news and reporting, not just the major articles. I'm used to seeing local high school sport information, box scores, etc in the sports section. Unfortunately you only get a few parts and pieces of the newspaper. Thanks, but that's not offering me any real value. If you ever change to offering the real newspaper, then I may be interested in subscribing.
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