{"id":3872,"date":"2012-05-20T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T19:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2012-05-29T09:11:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:11:28","slug":"ereader-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2012\/05\/ereader-saga-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"eReader saga continues.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Kindle-Fire-hand-e1317234108708-483x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=200 style=\"float: right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kid passed a book to me, <em>Sign of the Cross<\/em> by Chris Kuzneski, and said  that it is interesting.  The general understanding between us is that I will read whatever book she thought interesting to me.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, I would put that book on the bottom of the stack next to my bed.  When the stack was empty, I would open a file on my computer (called &#8220;books.txt&#8221;) and order my next batch from whatever.  Life goes on.  This time, I launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spl.org\/\">Seattle Public Library<\/a> digital home, search for the book, and added it to my &#8220;wish list.&#8221;  In fact, I added all 5 books of the series to the list.  I have been reading books exclusively on eReader for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2011\/01\/ereader-chosen\/\">more than a year<\/a> by now.  This old dog learned a new trick.<\/p>\n<p>What surprised me was that I converted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0051VVOB2\/ref=nav_sap_k6a\">Kindle Fire<\/a> within a year from its e-ink sibling.  I don&#8217;t read, continuously, more than a couple of hours per &#8220;seating&#8221; so the battery life is not an advantage.  Back-light is actually better for these pair of old eyes.  I don&#8217;t need to carry an extra book-light and I can read in the gym if I enlarge the font size.   And, I can play games!<\/p>\n<p>Slouching is probably my favorite reading position.  I actually prefer Kindle Fire over iPad for reading purposes.  The size and weight are much easier for one-hand operation, a requirement for slouch readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kid passed a book to me, Sign of the Cross by Chris Kuzneski, and said that it is interesting. The general understanding between us is that I will read whatever book she thought interesting to me. A year ago, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2012\/05\/ereader-saga-continues\/\">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":[],"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}