We’re a couple of days out and working out the kinks!
We need some help beta testing a couple of new reading features.
You don’t need to test them all!
If you do a test and it doesn’t work, can you message us the details (what you tried, what browser and what you saw) here on tumblr or via email at [email protected].
Anyone who had access to the last collection can do this... and we’re hoping to get it across a variety of platforms -- browsers/phones.
1. Login with your normal login and password to https://beta.ms2sl.com.
2. Go to “Read stories” on the right reading pane or under the “Me” section on the phone.
Now here’s the test cases.
a/ Download a MOBI and try it.
b/ Down an EPUB and try it.
c/ When you open a story, it fills the reading area. It should adapt to the reading device -- browsers and phones.
d/ When you close a story using the "Close" button, it keeps your place and goes back to it when you re-open the story once again. It should do this CROSS DEVICE. (So if you read on a laptop and then hit “Close”, then open it on your phone, it should hold your place like a bookmark.)
e/ Open a story and turn the page a few times. Leave the web site without clicking the "Close" button. Go back into the story and you will be where you left off. (This is not cross device behavior, so it will only work on the device where you were formerly reading.)
f/ Open a story, turn the page a few times, the close it with the "Close" button. Open it again, turn the page a few times, and leave the web site without clicking the "Close" button. Open the story from a different browser or device. The new browser/device should show where you were when you clicked "Close", but does not show the changes after that.
g/ Open a story and turn the page a few times. Then click the first button in the tool bar which looks a "rewind all the way" icon. This should take you back to the beginning of the story, no matter how far into it you are.
h/ Open a story and close it with the new "Finish" button. On the list of stories, instead of the orange "Reading" for that story, you should see a new gray "Finished" header. Open the story again and close with with "Close". It should now be back to the orange "Reading" header. Viewed pictures are always now gray "Viewed" on the story list.
We should also have a PDF download option available. If anyone requested that (I can’t recall who really liked that feature) can you let me know if you wanted the PDF size to be anything specific? We’re defaulting to 8 1/2′ x 11″, but I have a feeling that’s not what you wanted.