{"id":3686,"date":"2011-08-10T13:42:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T17:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2021-05-18T20:56:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T00:56:01","slug":"amazon-kindle-cloud-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/amazon-kindle-cloud-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2011\/08\/10\/kindle-cloud-reader\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2011\/08\/10\/kindle-cloud-reader\"><p>I think Amazon had this in the works for a long time &mdash; a web-based Kindle reader has been around for a while, and it makes sense to improve it in these ways. But surely Apple&rsquo;s new App Store rules for paid content have motivated Amazon to push harder in this direction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a good start, although it doesn&rsquo;t support collections or periodicals yet. With Kindle now fully protected against future App Store changes, there&rsquo;s even less reason to by content from iBooks.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2011-08-11): A <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/1137337\">JavaScript bookmarklet<\/a> to make the text selectable in Safari.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: I think Amazon had this in the works for a long time &mdash; a web-based Kindle reader has been around for a while, and it makes sense to improve it in these ways. But surely Apple&rsquo;s new App Store rules for paid content have motivated Amazon to push harder in this direction. It&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-05-19T00:56:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"7a67529f-f215-4d6a-ae52-71fcaff2777d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-19T00:56:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AemdSn_IVTWquUnH8r_J3fQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[165,96],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-kindle","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3691,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}