{"id":443,"date":"2010-02-14T22:40:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T04:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2010-02-14T22:40:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T04:40:45","slug":"e-book-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"E-Book Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been much of a book reader my whole life but the thought of having a library worth of books on me at one time seems intriguing.  The technology in e-book readers have been coming along and its just a matter of time before I jump in and grab one.  On one hand there is the Kindle with its tie in to Amazon which is a fantastic idea and then on the other is something like the Sony PRS-300 which allows for more openness in its formats.  I know I would be the type to choose the open platform and not always has it been a Sony device that falls into this category.  The battery life on the Sony is about 6800 page flips and it stores 440mb worth of data.<\/p>\n<p>The decision I will have to end up making is whether a device like an ebook reader is a device that is doing just one task when another device on the horizon, the Apple iPad seems to be the type that can perform a wide range of tasks.  What will end up being a deciding factor for me will be availability of unlimited 3G in Canada.  If Apple pulls through and does that for all of us Canadians, I would be more inclined to grab an Apple iPad for my e-book needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been much of a book reader my whole life but the thought of having a library worth of books on me at one time seems intriguing. The technology in e-book readers have been coming along and its just a matter of time before I jump in and grab one. On one hand there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">E-Book Reader<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,33,32],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-apple-ipad","tag-kindle","tag-sony-prs-300"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}