{"id":4851,"date":"2009-09-06T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2009-09-06T17:58:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T21:58:38","slug":"mobile-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4851","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve gotten a number of requests from people who would like a version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/shocked\">my book<\/a> in a mobile-friendly format.  One person suggested removing the line breaks.  <\/p>\n<p>Really?  Is that what you do for mobiles?  It seems like mooshing an entire book into an endless run-on paragraph would make it harder to understand. But I don&#8217;t know. Buying a mobile device for me would be like buying a Wii Fit for Larry Flynt.  I&#8217;m a techno-hermit shut-in. Ergo, no need for a device to surf the web in tinyvision. <\/p>\n<p>I did one sort of smart thing when I put the book together.  I wrote it in plain text with just a few HTML markups for bold and such, and then made some PHP to turn the thing into HTML.  So, it shouldn&#8217;t be hard to make a different script that makes the book mobile-friendly, provided I can figure out what that looks like.  I don&#8217;t even have a way to test it.  I assume &#8220;mobile&#8221; device&#8221; means more than &#8220;tiny screen&#8221;.  There are most likely other limitations.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried searching, but I keep ending up with pages that provide mobile content instead of guide you in making it, and I haven&#8217;t found one solid, comprehensive guide for &#8220;here is how things need to be so that it will work gracefully with all mobile devices&#8221;.  Thankfully, we&#8217;re just dealing with text, so this shouldn&#8217;t be brain surgery.  This is probably just a few simple rules.<\/p>\n<p>Any advice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve gotten a number of requests from people who would like a version of my book in a mobile-friendly format. One person suggested removing the line breaks. Really? Is that what you do for mobiles? It seems like mooshing an entire book into an endless run-on paragraph would make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}