THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

While the Kindle setup may not be ideal, there is an option this reviewer doesn’t seem to know is present. I say this based on one of the Kindle apps for another, non-Kindle device (the iPad), but my understanding is that this capability is universal for all Kindle software implementations.

Say there is a chart on page 10, but it’s being referenced on pages 50-55. The software allows you to go to page 10 and bookmark it with two quick taps. To return to the bookmarked page can then be done again in three simple taps.

No , this isn’t as easy as placing a finger on page 10 and flipping there, but it’s very easy and very fast. As with all things, there are tradeoffs, and this minor inconvenience is one that comes with e-readers.

Hey Tom,

I too downloaded The Book on Kindle, and I’m inclined to agree—while the text is fine, referring to the charts is next-to-impossible without having a physical copy. Considering how chart-heavy The Book is, this unfortunately detracts somewhat from the experience.

That being said, I was delighted to find that there even was a Kindle version available of The Book in the first place—hopefully future tablet editions will be able to present the data in an easier-to-reference manner.

it was ok for light reading at lunch, but for deep reading,charts, etc you need a paper copy

"The Book” is the first book I’ve purchased for my Kindle, and I’m reading it now.  The smallish screen size mean the charts typically fill most of it, so it’s rare that the text associated with a chart is on the screen at the same time as the chart.  That makes it tough.  I also find the fonts on the chart numbers to be a little less readable than the rest of the text.

Agree—the conversion publishers do for Kindle is as basic as basic gets. Unless the layout is done with it in mind, it’s very kludgy and you get the kind of experiences above. Then again, it’s pretty amazing that for a half-step to Harry Potter books that it exists at all. I think The Book 2.0 with charts, animations, and videos explaining concepts and illustrating plays will be even better, assuming someone figures out the economics.

Great stuff guys, really appreciate it.

Among say school text books or other chart-heavy books that requires alot of flipping back-and-forth, is there a particular Kindle book that stands out as a good model?

We built ours with it in mind. Email me and I’d be happy to send you a copy.