{"id":542,"date":"2008-01-27T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T00:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/recommendations\/the-future-of-reading"},"modified":"2008-01-30T07:12:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T15:12:12","slug":"the-future-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nurit bought me an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FI73MA\/ref=amb_link_6208312_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-0&amp;pf_rd_r=01Y5X7YJQXBG5S6FYR49&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=358859301&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Kindle <\/a>for Hanukkah and I got it just before we left for the Caymans.  It is a wonderful piece of new technology.  Now I can read a hardcover book on vacation without having to carry it along.  Kindle is about the size of a large format paperback book and has a screen that reads like a book.  You can change the font size and even thumb down pages.  I am reading the third book in Neal Stevenson&#8217;s Baroque Cycle and it is a faster read than the book.  The dictionary feature is very good.<\/p>\n<p>I repeat the Kindle is a great new piece of technology.  It is more that a book reader including internet access and email but less than a laptop computer.  Amazon has a great new product I hope they can manage it successfully.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2230179283\/P1290102JPG.html\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2414\/2230179283_83799aec7c_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"P1290102.JPG\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Kindling on the beach\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amazon you get the verb!  &#8220;I have got to <strong><em>kindle<\/em><\/strong> that book.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nurit bought me an Amazon Kindle for Hanukkah and I got it just before we left for the Caymans. It is a wonderful piece of new technology. Now I can read a hardcover book on vacation without having to carry it along. Kindle is about the size of a large format paperback book and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success","category-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-8K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}