{"id":210,"date":"2009-02-27T22:52:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T05:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/kindle\/"},"modified":"2010-06-10T15:37:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T22:37:50","slug":"kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does anybody who reads my blog have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Kindle <\/a>eBook reader?<\/p>\n<p>It looks like it might be a great way to read books.  The new version 2 that just came out is supposed to improve on most of the problems with the first one.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it&#8217;s very expensive.  Though you can download books for about half the cost of a printed book, you would have to download a lot to make up for the cost of the reader.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like it would be ideal for someone who traveled a lot; easer to bring one slim reader filled with 10 books than actually lugging 10 books along.<\/p>\n<p>Or should I just download books to my Blackberry?  The screen is much smaller and I don&#8217;t have access to Amazon&#8217;s huge library; that&#8217;s one problem with that idea.<\/p>\n<p>My birthday is coming up next month; should I treat myself with this?  Can anybody speak from personal experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does anybody who reads my blog have a Kindle eBook reader? It looks like it might be a great way to read books. The new version 2 that just came out is supposed to improve on most of the problems with the first one. On the other hand, it&#8217;s very expensive. Though you can download [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}