{"id":211,"date":"2003-09-14T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2003-09-14T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=211"},"modified":"2003-09-14T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2003-09-14T21:11:15","slug":"bookworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Bookworm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read quite a bit.  To the immediate left of my desk is a bookcase crammed full of paperbacks and hardcovers of assorted genres.  Mostly fiction with a dash of history and current events.  And I read pretty fast, which means that every couple minutes my nurse or whoever has to turn the page for me.  Nobody has ever complained about performing this minor task, but I do wish that e-books and readers had been more successful.  I know I can download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/reader\/promotions\/free_shop.asp\">some titles onto my PC<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t want to be chained to my desk whenever I have the desire to read.  I&#8217;d love someone to invest a small electronic device that has the resolution of paper and would allow me to turn pages with a simple switch interface of voice command.  I&#8217;ve tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zygo-usa.com\/blv6.htm\">mechanical page-turners<\/a>, but they&#8217;re big, clunky, and unreliable.  This theoretical &#8220;BookPad&#8221; would have to be lightweight, have a decent battery life, and preferably use an existing open-source OS to keep costs down and make it affordable for everyone.  Any bored inventors want to take a stab at this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read quite a bit. To the immediate left of my desk is a bookcase crammed full of paperbacks and hardcovers of assorted genres. Mostly fiction with a dash of history and current events. And I read pretty fast, which means that every couple minutes my nurse or whoever has to turn the page for <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=211' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-bookworm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}