{"id":477,"date":"2010-09-12T23:13:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/?p=477"},"modified":"2010-09-12T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:13:10","slug":"amazon-kindle-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/2010\/09\/12\/amazon-kindle-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Kindle review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently bit the bullet and bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002Y27P3M?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bloofandrunje-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002Y27P3M\">kindle<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been wanting to see the display of an ebook reader for a while but never had the chance, but the reviews of the display were all very good so I wasn&#8217;t too worried about that. With the recently announced 3rd generation kindles at a much more reasonable price I decided that it was time to see what all the fuss was about.<\/p>\n<p>I have been using the device for about two weeks and so far the overall impression is very positive. I haven&#8217;t recharged the device yet and it&#8217;s still about half full. I usually read at night before going to sleep. I&#8217;ve also used the built-in Oxford dictionary the first week. This was while I was finishing off a &#8220;normal&#8221; book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812967127?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bloofandrunje-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0812967127\">The Day Of the Triffids<\/a> (excellent book btw). Even just as a dictionary it also works very well because of the keyboard, the screen and the fact that you don&#8217;t need to think about charging.<\/p>\n<p>I have started reading Cory Doctorow&#8217;s latest novel <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/ftw\/download\/\">for the win<\/a>. The book can be downloaded for free in kindle format (DRM free). It&#8217;s wonderful to see Doctorow standing by his <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/?p=3053\">principles<\/a> and embracing the future. In the past I would download his latest work and read it on my computer, waiting for the physical book to arrive in the mail. Now I can just download it right away, read it on a very nice screen,  and donate if I like the book.<\/p>\n<p>Living in Denmark I must confess that I haven&#8217;t given much thought about using it to read Danish books. I mostly read books in English anyway, but at some point I&#8217;ll have to check out if and how one can borrow ebooks from the library. But that is a subject for another blog post \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The screen. It&#8217;s better than paperback. Yes it&#8217;s that good.<\/li>\n<li>The dictionary (I&#8217;m quite surprised of how much I&#8217;m using it)<\/li>\n<li>Battery life<\/li>\n<li>Very light and can fit in a ton of books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ebook prices. Why are a paperback version sometimes cheaper than the digital version?<\/li>\n<li>DRM on books<\/li>\n<li>PDF files can be viewed, but one really needs a bigger version as the kindle will not format the text to fit the screen properly. Hopefully this will be fixed in a firmware update sometime in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the ugly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s not too shabby looking with the graphite \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently bit the bullet and bought a kindle. I&#8217;ve been wanting to see the display of an ebook reader for a while but never had the chance, but the reviews of the display were all very good so I wasn&#8217;t too worried about that. With the recently announced 3rd generation kindles at a much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[254,125,257,256,255],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-amazon","tag-drm","tag-ebook","tag-ereader","tag-kindle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}