{"id":262,"date":"2007-11-19T12:48:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2007-11-19T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T17:48:48","slug":"kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since I heard rumors that Amazon was coming out with an eBook reader, I’ve been waiting for it.<\/p>\n

It’s here.<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s expensive, at $400. It’s wireless, which is awesome. You do your shopping and downloading right from the device, which apparently works on a cell phone (or cell phone-like) network, so you’re not limited to hotspots.<\/p>\n

And a download is quick. With the Sony Reader (which I own<\/a>), I’ve got to use my computer, navigate their HORRIBLE, amazingly slow, Windows-only app, and then wait forever to download stuff.<\/p>\n

It uses the same “ink” as the Sony model.<\/p>\n

I haven’t read the details yet, but it looks pretty good so far. It has a keyboard, which means that you can do stuff you can’t do with the Sony Reader, like search, take notes, and have an easy-to-use built-in dictionary.<\/p>\n

You can also subscribe to blogs and newspapers. With Sony, you SORT OF can, but it’s extremely limited.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the keyboard takes up space (too bad they didn’t do an iPhone-like touch screen). So, although I haven’t checked the specs, it must either be bigger than the Sony, or have a smaller screen.<\/p>\n

I think I’d rather have a bigger screen that a keyboard, but then, I’m not reading blogs and newspaper articles (which I might want to use Search for), because it’s so inconvenient to do so.<\/p>\n

I’m not ready to spend 400 bucks on this (I only spent $50 on my Sony, which retails for $300), but I really like where it’s going. And I assume that Amazon has a larger collection of books than the (as I may have mentioned) really crappy, terrible, Sony implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since I heard rumors that Amazon was coming out with an eBook reader, I’ve been waiting for it. It’s here. It’s expensive, at $400. It’s wireless, which is awesome. You do your shopping and downloading right from the device, which apparently works on a cell phone (or cell phone-like) network, so you’re not limited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelit","category-net-and-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}