{"id":531,"date":"2007-10-15T19:33:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/10\/15\/e-readers-getting-there\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T17:58:18","slug":"e-readers-getting-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/10\/15\/e-readers-getting-there\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Readers: Getting there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve never owned (a dedicated) one, <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/11\/e-book-readers\/\">I sure am interested<\/a> in the progress of &#8220;e-book&#8221; and &#8220;e-reader&#8221; technology.  Sony&#8217;s latest is out, and it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/10\/12\/sony-reader-prs-505-second-gen-hands-on-were-in-love\/\">seems to be getting closer to decent<\/a>.  In considering the content availability (or lack thereof), I&#8217;ve realized that I really *would* find value in an e-reader.  I read a lot of fiction that&#8217;s good, but not great.  And far too much political and policy non-fiction.  While I&#8217;m always glad I&#8217;ve read them, nothing in either class really deserves the increasingly rare space on my bookshelves at home.  And I could never toss a book.*  Being able to buy them in e-reader format would be well worth the price of the reader, I think.  These are books where, as soon as the immediate value of the content has been consumed, I&#8217;ve not so much use for them.   Let&#8217;s hope that buying them as e-books is an option, soon.<\/p>\n<p>*Like many, I grew up with very specific ideas about how books should be treated.  In my family, every book was something just short of a Torah.  It should be respected, valued, and protected from harm at all costs.  This is why my mother&#8217;s childhood books (<em>Little Pokey Puppy, Doctor Dan<\/em>) and my childhood books (<em>The Fire Cat, Green Eggs &amp; Ham<\/em>) will soon be enjoyed by the next generation (don&#8217;t look at <em>me<\/em>).  But I do have to say that my personal book rules have evolved.  I never wrote in a book in college, but law school forced me into some pretty ugly desecration (which, frankly, is nothing compared to what I&#8217;d do to those case books now).  Now, I&#8217;ll willingly dogear a page or lightly tick (pencil only) a particularly relevant or superbly written passage.  But I&#8217;ll still look at you as if you were a serial killer if you lazily drop a book, break its spine, or tear a page.  So my ideas with regard to books are malleable, but deeply rooted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve never owned (a dedicated) one, I sure am interested in the progress of &#8220;e-book&#8221; and &#8220;e-reader&#8221; technology. Sony&#8217;s latest is out, and it seems to be getting closer to decent. In considering the content availability (or lack thereof), I&#8217;ve realized that I really *would* find value in an e-reader. I read a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}