{"id":3461,"date":"2007-11-20T23:40:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/11\/20\/kindle\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T04:40:24","slug":"kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/11\/kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\"><\/span><span class=\"blog\">I<br \/>\nfind it quite hard to believe the device that Amazon is selling as it&#8217;s<br \/>\nnew e-book reader the Kindle. &nbsp;Three years in the making and<br \/>\nmuch delayed and they came up with a device obviously designed by a<br \/>\ncommittee where little interest was paid to people who would want an<br \/>\ne-book reader in the first place. &nbsp;Now if I wanted to design<br \/>\nan e-book reader that was sure to fail and possibly serve as a tax<br \/>\nwrite off like in The Producers these are some of the features I would<br \/>\ninclude.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"blog\">Charge $399 for the reader.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"blog\">Make it really ugly with<br \/>\nlots of angles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"blog\">Make it incompatible with<br \/>\nthe ebook format you use to sell.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"blog\">Not allow you to add your<br \/>\nown files such as PDF, docs, and text without going through the<br \/>\ncompanies site with a fee attached.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"blog\">Charge you two bucks for<br \/>\nbooks available for free at <\/span>Project Gutenberg.<\/li>\n<li>Allow you to read from a group of blogs selected by the<br \/>\ncompany and then charge you $1 to $2 a month for each blog you<br \/>\nsubscribe to.<\/li>\n<li>Have EVDO available but not WI-FI.<\/li>\n<li>Charge you $14 dollars a month to view newspaper content<br \/>\nfreely available on the web.<\/li>\n<li>Add a crappy cover that won&#8217;t last long.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"blog\">Oh wait that is the Kindle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">The e-book revolution has been<br \/>\nforecasted to occur for a number of years and a device like this is<br \/>\nsure to delay that day or set that back. &nbsp;The first person you<br \/>\nhave to please with new technology is early adopters who are willing to<br \/>\npay a higher price point for cutting edge technology. &nbsp;Sony&#8217;s<br \/>\nsecond generation ebook reader uses the same screen as the Kindle, is a<br \/>\nhundred dollars less, and allows you to add your own content. But sales<br \/>\nof the Sony Reader have been dismal. Amazon will surely have a much<br \/>\nlarger library and the built-in EVDO is a good feature that allow&#8217;s<br \/>\npeople to use the device without a computer. Early-adopters though<br \/>\nprobably have a computer and surely want to be able to place their own<br \/>\ncontent on their own reader. &nbsp;I know that is a deal breaker<br \/>\nfor someone like myself who otherwise would like a solid portable<br \/>\nreading device and the ability to get books from Amazon.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it quite hard to believe the device that Amazon is selling as it&#8217;s new e-book reader the Kindle. &nbsp;Three years in the making and much delayed and they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}