{"id":2477,"date":"2009-11-10T18:55:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T18:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2009-11-10T18:55:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T18:55:59","slug":"reading_materia_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"Reading Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon just released the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5401131\/kindle-for-pc-beta-now-available-to-download\">PC version of its Kindle reader<\/a>. Of course, I downloaded it as soon as I saw the news and purchased three Kindle books (a couple mystery\/thrillers that had been sitting on my wishlist for a few years as well as Ian Banks&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Transition-Iain-M-Banks\/dp\/0316071986\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1257900910&amp;sr=1-1\"><i>Transition<\/i><\/a>). The software is still in beta, so it doesn&#8217;t have many frills. Text can be re-sized and navigation is pretty straightforward. If you made notes or highlighted passages on a Kindle device, those can be synched with the PC version. Unfortunately, you can&#8217;t highlight or annotate text in the PC version (although Amazon hints that might change in the near future).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t plan to stop buying physical books and I&#8217;m still waiting for an accessible e-reader that won&#8217;t chain me to my desk, but I also like not having to wait for someone to turn the pages or having to flatten book bindings so I can read the margins. This will likely be a tide-me-over technology, but I&#8217;ll gladly take it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon just released the PC version of its Kindle reader. Of course, I downloaded it as soon as I saw the news and purchased three Kindle books (a couple mystery\/thrillers that had been sitting on my wishlist for a few years as well as Ian Banks&#8217; Transition). The software is still in beta, so it <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2477' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-2477","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-DX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","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=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}