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Q: Safari Reader and multiple page stories

The link below takes you to a five page story in the Washington Post. Reader will only display the first two pages of the story. There is also an ad that appears in Reader at the bottom of the second page. Is there some trick I'm missing to try and get the entire story to display in Reader? I'm able to read other multiple page stories on other newspaper and non-newspaper sites.

I've tried paging though the story without Reader to see if it would save it in cache and then opening Reader but it still only displays two pages at a time.

Here's the link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070202983_ 4.html?sid=ST2010070203263

BTW, I think Reader is the best new function introduced in a web browser in quite a few years.

MacPro 2 x 2.66 (Early 2006), Mac OS X (10.6.4), 9gb RAM, graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

Posted on Jul 3, 2010 8:51 AM

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Q: Safari Reader and multiple page stories

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  • by Carolyn Samit,

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit Jul 3, 2010 8:59 AM in response to rborst
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    Jul 3, 2010 8:59 AM in response to rborst
    HI,

    When you see more than one page available, you have to go back and click Next in order for Reader to display the following pages.






    Carolyn
  • by ~Bee,

    ~Bee ~Bee Jul 3, 2010 8:59 AM in response to rborst
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    Jul 3, 2010 8:59 AM in response to rborst
    rborst

    Down at the bottom, you can choose

    Back 1 2 3 4 5 Forward

    Page 1 is an ad for facebook.
    You can see all the pages. 2-5.
    The photo remains the same, but the copy is continued.
    I hope this helps.
  • by rborst,

    rborst rborst Jul 3, 2010 9:26 AM in response to rborst
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    Jul 3, 2010 9:26 AM in response to rborst
    Greetings,

    Thanks for your fast and courteous replies.

    I cannot see any button or other icon at the bottom of Reader that would allow me to continue to the next page. The only icons visible are: Zoom, Email, Print and Close. I tried emailing the story to myself just to see what it would send and I only got the first two pages plus the jewelry ad at the bottom of the second page. It sends the document just as Reader displays it. Sorry if this is something obvious I'm missing.

    Since you can see these buttons and I can't I'm going to assume this is something peculiar to my installation. I can't imagine what that may be but I'll keep rooting around and see what I can find.

    Thanks again!
  • by Carolyn Samit,

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit Jul 3, 2010 9:30 AM in response to rborst
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    Jul 3, 2010 9:30 AM in response to rborst
    HI,

    On this particular website, the only option is at the link at the bottom of the first page.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070202983_ 4.html?sid=ST2010070203263



    < Back 1 2 3 4 5 Next >

    Not on the reader itself.








  • by rborst,

    rborst rborst Jul 3, 2010 9:38 AM in response to rborst
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    Jul 3, 2010 9:38 AM in response to rborst
    Okay, so I have to drop out of Reader to turn the page. Understood.

    I'm curious to know what there is in the coding of this page that prevents Reader from functioning the way Apple intended. I'll have to do some additional research.

    Thanks again for the responses. Much appreciated.
  • by ~Bee,

    ~Bee ~Bee Jul 3, 2010 9:39 AM in response to rborst
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    Jul 3, 2010 9:39 AM in response to rborst
    Well, that was confusing.

    The whole entire text of that article is on ONE page.
    From start to finish, it's all on that 1 page.
  • by rborst,

    rborst rborst Jul 3, 2010 10:00 AM in response to ~Bee
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    Jul 3, 2010 10:00 AM in response to ~Bee
    Actually, when I'm able to read multi-page stories in Reader that's how they appear. I just scroll to the bottom of the first page and then the next page appears. This continues until I reach the end of the story. This happens for the first two pages of the Washington Post story but then…no more pages.

    I don't mean to beat this subject to death but here's an example of a 6,000+ word story that runs seven pages. Reader works perfectly on this story including putting the photos in the right places.

    http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2000-04-05/news/space-case/
  • by ~Bee,

    ~Bee ~Bee Jul 3, 2010 10:47 AM in response to rborst
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    Jul 3, 2010 10:47 AM in response to rborst
    rborst --

    It's not up to Reader to include photos.
    It's up to the source whether or not to include them.
    At least this is what I understand.

    What I am saying about this article is this:
    It is ALL there, on that one page. There is no page 2, because all the copy is on page 1 in Reader.
  • by bryanfromdelray beach,

    bryanfromdelray beach bryanfromdelray beach Jul 11, 2016 3:06 AM in response to rborst
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    Jul 11, 2016 3:06 AM in response to rborst

    I have this very similar problem: I only seem to see the FIRST PAGE when using Reader View in Safari. I'm using Safari 9.1.1 with OS X El Capitan.