{"id":478,"date":"2015-10-02T17:48:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T00:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/?p=478"},"modified":"2015-10-02T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T01:03:07","slug":"kindle-4-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/techblog\/kindle-4-life.html","title":{"rendered":"kindle 4 life"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love my Kindle. There, I said it. A recent article on kottke.org pointed out that ebook reader sales are declining<\/a> and ripped on Amazon for not being design-oriented enough. <\/p>\n

I was curious what Kottke meant by that so I read (ok, skimmed) an article he references<\/a> by Craig Mod. In the article, Craig talks about feeling that ebooks are less beautiful than paper books. He then says that Amazon should do a better job letting a reader know when they have long-neglected books that need reading:<\/p>\n

\nThe pile of unread books we have on our bedside tables is often referred to as a graveyard of good intentions. The list of unread books on our Kindles is more of a black hole of fleeting intentions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s the thing: I love my Kindle. Did I say that already? I can read using one hand. I can read without any room lights on. I can carry lots of books with me everywhere I go without having to, you know, carry lots of books around. Although I agree that the experience can be better I still think the good outweighs the bad.<\/p>\n

Not long ago, newspapers used to be the way we consumed our news. Who reads a newspaper now? The convenience of reading internet news on a phone, tablet, or whatever has surpassed the need to feel<\/em> the newspaper. <\/p>\n

I think that the people complaining about ebooks being too sterile are of the older generation that grew up with paper books. They grew to love the feel<\/em> of a paper book and miss that when using an e-reader. <\/p>\n

The sad part is that if sales are going down that means that the younger generations are reading less<\/em>. That is truly disheartening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love my Kindle. There, I said it. A recent article on kottke.org pointed out that ebook reader sales are declining and ripped on Amazon for not being design-oriented enough. I was curious what Kottke meant by that so I read (ok, skimmed) an article he references by Craig Mod. In the article, Craig talks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milow.net\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}