{"id":74988,"date":"2012-11-20T19:11:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T03:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=19117"},"modified":"2012-11-20T19:11:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T03:11:16","slug":"the-kindle-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/20\/the-kindle-price\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindle price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a Kindle for a few years now. I read a lot on it. And yet I observed something recently: <b>I&#8217;ve stopped going to the library much.<\/b> This is a big deal for me&#8230;probably since the age of 7 I&#8217;ve clocked in at least one visit to the public library per week in my life. I never turn books in past due because of the frequency with which I patronize the public or university libraries which I&#8217;ve had access to in life. Until recently. Now on occasion books go overdue, because I don&#8217;t go very often.<\/p>\n<p>In the short term the Kindle has been a boon. But I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s good for us in the long term. I&#8217;d rather pay more for a device which allowed for easier usage of different formats, as well as looser distribution policies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/1q2usP_QCGE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a Kindle for a few years now. I read a lot on it. And yet I observed something recently: I&#8217;ve stopped going to the library much. This is a big deal for me&#8230;probably since the age of 7 I&#8217;ve clocked in at least one visit to the public library per week in my [&#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-74988","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\/74988","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=74988"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75237,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74988\/revisions\/75237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}