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Readability

Thanks for the preview — looks good and readable. (I have this problem with e-zines in that I go cross-eyed after a few pages on-screen, so never manage to read everything; that’s why I had to stop buying short stories from Fictionwise. So I’m grateful for clear easy-on-the-eye text.)

BwS is interesting and fun; I do keep dipping in even if I can’t read the whole thing. Weekly is a VERY impressive schedule! Thanks again.

Copyright © 2006 by David Redd

Glad you like our display, David. Aside from the headers and footers and a few other things, the text is displayed in the font and size of your own browser preferences. Making the font too large will mess up tables, but they’re used almost exclusively in poetry, headers and departmental pages. In short, you can view Bewildering Stories in practically any style you like.

We’re acutely aware that reading on line is not the same as reading on paper. That’s why we adhere pretty strictly to our 3,000-word page limit and 9,000-word issue limit for any title.

If readers looked only at the the shortest features, we think that would be sad; they’d miss a lot of other good stuff, such as our novels, which make us one of the most distictive literary webzines on the Net. That’s why we encourage readers to print out pages. It’s hard on ink cartridges and paper, but it sure is convenient and easy on the eyes.

I guess you’re right, a weekly schedule is impressive. We must be doing something right: our fiction backlog now extends to issue 194, and we currently have an embarrassment of riches in poetry. A few selections are long enough to affect issue length, but most are fairly short, and we’d rather not keep them waiting any longer than we have to.

Don