{"id":365,"date":"2009-02-11T06:01:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T21:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/amazons-kindle-2\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T06:01:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T21:01:24","slug":"amazons-kindle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/amazons-kindle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s Kindle 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"floatleft\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00154JDAI?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=daveva-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00154JDAI\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/kindle2.jpg\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=daveva-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00154JDAI\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m breaking any news here at all, but Amazon has announced the second version of <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/kindle\/\">their ebook reading, the Kindle<\/a>.  It is a nice looking piece of hardware.  I actually tested a version of this a few months back when I was in Palo Alto.  I really would like to get one of these devices, but it is only being sold in the US currently because of the included wireless internet service.  I assume.  I will definitely buy one of these if they are released in Japan, but I think I can wait until then.  <\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>I have an OLPC that I use to read ebooks on, so that should last me for a while.  I&#8217;m also a bit unhappy that the books are Digital Restrictions Management on them so you can&#8217;t read the books that you buy on other hardware.  I wonder if the books will be accessible in 20 years or so.  I know that my real paper books will be, as long as I manage to store them that long.  <\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a cool looking device that I really want, but I&#8217;ll wait until we get a Japanese approved version out.  <\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I&#8217;m breaking any news here at all, but Amazon has announced the second version of their ebook reading, the Kindle. It is a nice looking piece of hardware. I actually tested a version of this a few months back when I was in Palo Alto. I really would like to get one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}