{"id":36,"date":"2011-06-17T22:53:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T03:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2011-06-18T20:14:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T01:14:21","slug":"the-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"The Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had an iPad since they were introduced, and not long after I got it, I bought my wife an Amazon Kindle:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=thenerme-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=B004HFS6Z0\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She loved it. I got her the Kindle green case with built-in light and she carries it everywhere.  I was so impressed, I got one too.  The display of the Kindle is phenomenal.  You know when you buy electronics, they sometimes come with a sticker over the display to simulate what it would look like, but you can tell it is just printed on a piece of clear plastic.  Well, when the Kindle first came in, I thought it had one of those stickers and I was surprised when I learned that it was the display itself-  Super crisp, clear text.  Of course, the downside of that crisp e-ink look is the slow speed of changing pages.  Thankfully, reading text doesn&#8217;t require that many page turns and the speed is not a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Some people claim the iPad is a Kindle killer, but I disagree.  When reading some long-form text, I always look for it first for the Kindle, and then the iPad as a 2nd place reading device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had an iPad since they were introduced, and not long after I got it, I bought my wife an Amazon Kindle: She loved it. I got her the Kindle green case with built-in light and she carries it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/?p=36\">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":[11],"tags":[9,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenerdis.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}