{"id":1881,"date":"2007-11-20T21:42:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2007-11-20T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T02:42:12","slug":"amazon-kindle-and-sony-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The e-book that seemed to be dead as an idea is back. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningcenter.sony.us\/assets\/itpd\/reader\/index.html\">Sony has their Reader<\/a> which uses e-ink to offer a more paper-like reading experience.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/amazkind.jpg\" title=\"Image of Kindle\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/amazkind.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Kindle\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device\/dp\/B000FI73MA\">Amazon<\/a> has just announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news114707262.html\">Kindle<\/a> which has a keyboard and can <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evolution-Data_Optimized\">EV-DO<\/a> free wirless access so you can order material from Amazon without connecting to your PC. The Amazon video mentions that you can automatically get newspapers and updates from blogs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing one of the real strengths of Kindle is Amazon &#8211; that they will have the best content and with EV-DO they will have easy access to content wherever you can get a connection. On the other hand the Kindle looks dorky (not that the Sony looks much better.) As they say, WWAD (what would Apple do?)<\/p>\n<p>To be honest I thought the e-book reader as a device was dead after the last round of devices like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetebook.com\/mainpage.asp?webpageid=15&amp;TBToolID=1115\">Rocket eBook<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I figured tablet PCs and PDAs would make dedicated readers obsolete &#8211; we do after all read lots of pages off screens already. See Cory Doctorow on <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/ebooksneitherenorbooks.txt\">Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books<\/a>. But, I was wrong &#8230; it seems the big guys think there is a market for such appliances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The e-book that seemed to be dead as an idea is back. Sony has their Reader which uses e-ink to offer a more paper-like reading experience. Amazon has just announced the Kindle which has a keyboard and can EV-DO free wirless access so you can order material from Amazon without connecting to your PC. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1881\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-arts","category-literature","category-markup-and-text-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}