{"id":3816,"date":"2011-09-28T11:26:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2021-05-18T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T00:56:15","slug":"kindle-touch-and-kindle-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/28\/kindle-touch-and-kindle-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very impressive announcements from Amazon today. I&rsquo;m actually most interested in the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0051QVESA\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">$79 Kindle<\/a>. It&rsquo;s the perfect size and weight for reading, and a good compromise of features. I have a Wi-Fi Kindle 3 and have never wanted 3G and only rarely used the keyboard. I actually prefer the hardware page-changing buttons to touch. They feel natural and don&rsquo;t lead to fingerprints on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2011-09-29): <a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/machine_for_reading_books\/\">Lukas Mathis<\/a> explains more about why page-turning buttons are good.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2011-10-04): <a href=\"http:\/\/512pixels.net\/kindle-2011-review\/\">Stephen M. Hackett<\/a> reviews the $79 Kindle.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very impressive announcements from Amazon today. I&rsquo;m actually most interested in the new $79 Kindle. It&rsquo;s the perfect size and weight for reading, and a good compromise of features. I have a Wi-Fi Kindle 3 and have never wanted 3G and only rarely used the keyboard. I actually prefer the hardware page-changing buttons to touch. [&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":"2021-05-19T00:56:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"280699ca-815a-4d12-83e3-eab1cd272a47","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-19T00:56:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKAaZyoFaTRKD4-qxzScqRw","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":[165,632],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-kindle","tag-kindle-fire"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","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=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3839,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}