{"id":59960,"date":"2012-01-03T10:29:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T18:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=15252"},"modified":"2012-01-03T10:29:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T18:29:59","slug":"kindle-vs-non-kindle-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/03\/kindle-vs-non-kindle-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle vs. non-kindle books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of curiosity, how many readers are switching mostly to Kindle books? I myself find myself doing this. Not for any ideological or conscious reason. Rather, cost and portability are both major upsides of the Kindle. I also find that &#8220;impulse buys&#8221; are easier for me on the Kindle (purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00551S1HI\/geneexpressio-20\">The Great Sea<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0054TVW04\/geneexpressio-20\">Civilization: The West and the Rest<\/a>, the latter mostly to see if <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/ideas-market\/2011\/12\/05\/niall-ferguson-vs-pankaj-mishra\/\">Panjak Mishra<\/a> actually did read the book). The Kindle has been around for a few years, but it looks like web traffic related to it is still increasing radically. I compare it o the iPad below.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15252\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/01\/kindle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15253\" title=\"kindle\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/01\/kindle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/01\/ipad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15254\" title=\"ipad\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/01\/ipad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> OK, never mind about the comparison. I suspect that the bounce for &#8220;Kindle&#8221; is due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=kindle+fire\">Kindle Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of curiosity, how many readers are switching mostly to Kindle books? I myself find myself doing this. Not for any ideological or conscious reason. Rather, cost and portability are both major upsides of the Kindle. I also find that &#8220;impulse buys&#8221; are easier for me on the Kindle (purchased The Great Sea and Civilization: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kindle","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59960"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60320,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59960\/revisions\/60320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}