{"id":469,"date":"2008-06-21T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T16:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2008-06-21T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T16:36:58","slug":"great-ideas-for-next-gen-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/great-ideas-for-next-gen-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Ideas for Next Gen Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely write a post simply to point to someone else&#8217;s post, brilliant or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>I used to be a voracious reader. That was so long ago, I&#8217;m embarrassed to even make that claim. There are many reasons why I don&#8217;t read as much (not the least of which is that I&#8217;m the world&#8217;s slowest reader). Mostly, it&#8217;s because I spend so (too?) much time on the Internet, that I don&#8217;t just disconnect and read.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I admit that the <strong>concept<\/strong> of <a title=\"Amazon's Kindle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FI73MA\/ref=amb_link_6369712_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-1&amp;pf_rd_r=1K0JYC3P8N7D8F0498FX&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=409471701&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\" target=\"_blank\">the Kindle<\/a> intrigued me to the point of considering one. If I got one, I was hoping that a side-effect would be to read more, just because I couldn&#8217;t buy one and not use it, right? Well, I still haven&#8217;t bought one, and I&#8217;m not that close to doing it, but I still read everything I can about the Kindle, to be ready when the tipping point comes my way.<\/p>\n<p>So, today I finally read a post about the Kindle that is <strong>inspirational<\/strong> (IMHO).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s written by a guy, <a title=\"Seth Godin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seth_Godin\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Godin<\/a>, who often writes intelligent, thought provoking pieces. <a title=\"Seth Godin on the Amazon Kindle\" href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2008\/06\/random-thoughts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here it is<\/a>, enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely write a post simply to point to someone else&#8217;s post, brilliant or otherwise. I used to be a voracious reader. That was so long ago, I&#8217;m embarrassed to even make that claim. There are many reasons why I don&#8217;t read as much (not the least of which is that I&#8217;m the world&#8217;s slowest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,2],"tags":[58,321,320,322,323],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","category-3","category-2","tag-amazoncom","tag-books","tag-kindle","tag-reading","tag-seth-godin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}