{"id":845,"date":"2009-04-16T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2009\/04\/16\/amazon-kindle\/"},"modified":"2009-04-16T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T03:58:00","slug":"amazon-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2009\/04\/16\/amazon-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, for my birthday, my wife gave me an Amazon Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>Its magical qualities were apparent almost immdediately, and after having used it on a daily basis ever since, I am now convinced that it is an example of Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s Third law:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you enjoy reading books, then you will love the Kindle.  The e-ink screen is easy on the eyes and the Kindle itself feels perfect in my hand, being the size and weight of a paperback book.  It downloads new books in less than a minute&#8211;even a book as large as <em>The Brother&#8217;s Karamazov<\/em> or <em>The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em>.  It&#8217;s internal memory has enough space to hold 1500 books; so far, I&#8217;ve only got about 79 on it.  They take up much less physical space than they otherwise would.<\/p>\n<p>I also have the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times delivered wirelessly every morning.  No more lost newspapers, stolen newspapers or soggy newspapers.  I actually prefer reading them on the Kindle to reading them in newsprint.  The only downside is the lack of comics; but thankfully, the comics are available on the web at places like comics.com, so I can still keep up on my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>If you get a Kindle as a gift, you&#8217;ll be very happy with it if you like to read.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, for my birthday, my wife gave me an Amazon Kindle. Its magical qualities were apparent almost immdediately, and after having used it on a daily basis ever since, I am now convinced that it is an &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2009\/04\/16\/amazon-kindle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}