Review: Intensely painful Kindle version
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 28, 2012
There were several stimulating ideas in this book. Unfortunately, my reading experience was marred by the presentation. I running Windows 7 and using the Safari browser to access my Amazon cloud account (Firefox doesn't work, and my favorite Norwegian browser, Opera, is not supported).So far, every one of the 300 Kindle books I have read using this combination of tools has been a pleasure for the eyes. This Ninja book is the only exception. Every single page of 6-point (?) text seems to have been rendered as a pure graphic. If I try to blow up the text using Safari's Ctrl/+ keyboard shortcut, the bottom of every page is chopped off and the text is still too small, except at the very highest magnification, leaving only the top three or four lines of each page visible. I finally figured out that I could take a hint from Mr. Magoo: I set the Windows magnifier to 300% magnification and was able to peer at each line painful bit by painful bit. Sheer agony!The author has come up with some excellent ideas. It's a shame to ruin them with such poor presentation. Maybe these graphic-only pages will be readable on a real Kindle, but I don't intend to buy one.