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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Limited Content, June 16, 2008
The Slate subscription seems very limited on it's content - especially when considering the $2.50 monthly fee - compared to the (free) Slate website. I know, I know, $2.50 isn't that much, but Slate is very content-rich, and to miss half the articles is to miss quite a lot (No "Fighting Words"? Are you kidding me?!). It is nice to have the articles delivered automatically, and it is a joy to read the articles on the Kindle. I am using the free trial period, and will update this review if anything changes, but it seems like the limited content makes this a dealbreaker for me at this time.
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Edit: Today (Tuesday) I did get much of the content that was in yesterday's Slate, including Christopher Hitchens' "Fighting Words". Hmmm...
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best value on Kindle for news, March 2, 2008
I have been "sampling" all the newspapers, magazines, and blogs since I got my Kindle in early December and Slate is the best value. The "daily papers" by Daniel Pollit is an excellent compendium of the major dailies. The political commentary is in-depth and insightful.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent range of news with links to more detail, August 17, 2008
Steven Bremner says it for me. Where else (on the Kindle) can you get such wide-ranging news and analysis, with a great selection of summaries of stories from major newspapers about currently big issues and with links to the full stories if we're interested in more.
What amazed me was that if the source site is not overly graphics-laden, the link works and we can read the full story and then go 'back' to the collection of articles summarized. If a a page is too slow-loading or formatted in a way that the Kindle can't handle well, then I make an annotation to read the story online later when home, at the computer. If the title is "Next article" as can happen, I can also save it as a clipping to remind myself to get the longer story.
The content is varied, the writing smart, and this is lively reading on a daily basis. I've tried a few newspapers and blogs and am constantly online with my computer, and Slate is my first choice for reading each day -- even when I had the NY Times subscription for the 2 week trial.
One example: I wanted to know more about the Georgia/Russia situation, and Slate summed up articles from NY Times, WashPost, LA Times and MANY other sources while directing us to the actual articles. It's just great to have the summaries and leads to so many articles I wouldn't even know about. This is a sleeper, since I don't see it in the top 25. One day's trial was all I needed to know I'd keep this one. However, be aware that stories are kept for several days, so there is some redundancy there - but I like that too.
Slate also has plenty of original articles and you can choose from Sections, which include (besides News and Politics), Arts & Life, Business & Tech, Health and Science, Sports, and also Slate on NPR.
UPDATE: If you do follow any Slate link to its full story via the Kindle edition, you'll get faster page-load speed if you set the basic web browser to Default rather than Advanced. It won't, then, observe javascript which you don't really want most of the time, unless it is needed to run something before you can see the page (rare) and the page content will come up faster. Left-column material will come up first, so 'Next-Page' past that.
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