{"id":1470,"date":"2012-09-29T06:54:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T04:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2012-09-29T06:55:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T04:55:01","slug":"the-kindle-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-kindle-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindle touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After pondering whether to buy an e-reader or not for a long time (see <a title=\"Do you own an ebook reader?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/do-you-own-an-ebook-reader\/\">here<\/a>, <a title=\"More thoughts on electronic books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/more-thoughts-on-electronic-books\/\">here<\/a> and <a title=\"E-book readers, how I solved my dilemna\" href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/e-book-readers-how-i-solved-my-dilemna\/\">here<\/a>) , I decided back to get one back in August. I went for a Kindle touch. The idea is that I can get and read a number of books in English without cluttering the shelves. I still buy hard copies of commentaries and reference books.<\/p>\n<p>I am pleased with the experience. It is easy to use, and the pages just look like the pages of a book. I have the impression of being more efficient when I read as well. I think that&#8217;s because it is not as easy to flick back and forth through pages. I&#8217;ve read quite a few books on it already, and the pile of books I want to read in my wish-list is growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After pondering whether to buy an e-reader or not for a long time (see here, here and here) , I decided back to get one back in August. I went for a Kindle touch. The idea is that I can get and read a number of books in English without cluttering the shelves. I still &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-kindle-touch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Kindle touch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}