{"id":2210,"date":"2009-02-09T18:54:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T18:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2009-02-09T18:54:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T18:54:56","slug":"gadget_critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"Gadget Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon showed off the new version of its e-book reader, the Kindle<\/a>, to the public today. It’s slimmer and prettier and it offers at least one improvement in terms of accessibility. The Kindle 2 includes a text-to-speech function that should be of use to people with visual impairments. But it still doesn’t offer any kind of hands-free access, which means that I will continue to purchase boring old paper-based books for the foreseeable future. I’m not expecting Amazon to get into the adaptive hardware business, but how about meeting me halfway: give me the ability to download e-books from the Amazon website and read them on my computer. At a time when I can easily purchase music, movies, and TV shows from any number of vendors, it’s a bit frustrating not to have the same option for books.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon showed off the new version of its e-book reader, the Kindle, to the public today. It’s slimmer and prettier and it offers at least one improvement in terms of accessibility. The Kindle 2 includes a text-to-speech function that should be of use to people with visual impairments. But it still doesn’t offer any kind […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-2210","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\/p9Iwau-zE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}