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| Publisher: Slate
Category: Digital Text Feeds
Buy New: $2.49
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 535
Format: Magazine Subscription
Media: Kindle Edition
Subscription Length: 0 Months
ASIN: B000IOMTC0
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Product Description
Founded in 1996 by the former editor of the New Republic and owned by The Washington Post Company, Slate is an online news magazine that features left-leaning articles about politics, culture, art, and sports. In recognition of its quality reporting, Slate has been a recipient of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online. The Kindle Edition of Slate contains most of the articles from the online edition, but will not include all images. For your convenience, issues are automatically delivered wirelessly to your Kindle so you can read them each morning.
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Worth Waiting For, But I Still Wish They'd Deliver It Earlier October 3, 2008
I love Slate! My favorite thing in it is the news digest for each day. Unfortunately, what I really like is to be able to read that BEFORE I go off and tackle the day's newspapers -- not possible when, as another reviewer pointed out, Slate doesn't get delivered to my Kindle until 9AM. Since all the new content for each day is posted on the website well before then, I'm not sure why this is. Someone needs to talk to someone and get it delivered around 7 daily, when Daniel Politi finishes writing his news digest.
When I do get to read it, there's the news digest, informative and logical, well-written political articles, and always something fun to read as well. They just need to start delivering it earlier so I can read it on the subway!
 Excellent range of news with links to more detail August 17, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 Limited Content June 16, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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...
Best value on Kindle for news March 2, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
Nice portable version of the site January 13, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Slate works pretty well on the Kindle. You get a table of contents for each day, and then there's a "skip to next article" at the top of each article as well. Some articles aren't as useful, as link-heavy stuff doesn't work well, but things like the summaries of key headlines in the nation's newspapers are a good way to get a quick handle on things when you're on the go.
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