{"id":757,"date":"2011-02-01T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2011-02-01T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T16:30:11","slug":"reading-via-the-kindle-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"reading via the kindle app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help fulfill my stated goal of <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2011\/01\/19\/reading-more\/\">reading more<\/a>, I have installed the {{Kindle}} app on my laptops. So far I&#8217;ve found scores of free ebooks that I&#8217;ve either always wanted to read, or figured I&#8217;d give a chance since they&#8217;re free. The first one I read was a collection of {{Aesop&#8217;s fables}}.<\/p>\n<p>Some reactions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They&#8217;re all really short &#8211; rarely more than two paragraphs<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve heard the vast majority of them (perhaps with some characters changed) and never knew they were an &#8220;Aesop fable&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Reading with the Kindle app requires NOT using the arrow keys until you want to change *pages* &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t scroll like Word or a web browser &#8211; you *have* to read all the way to the bottom of the screen before &#8220;changing pages&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Not being able to linearly scroll is annoying because it&#8217;s how I read on a computer<\/li>\n<li>Bookmarks are cool &#8211; being able to come back to where you were quickly<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Whispersync&#8221;\u2122 &#8211; Amazon&#8217;s autosynchronizer is pretty cool, too: allows all of your Kindles to be at the &#8220;same&#8221; place in an ebook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help fulfill my stated goal of reading more, I have installed the {{Kindle}} app on my laptops. So far I&#8217;ve found scores of free ebooks that I&#8217;ve either always wanted to read, or figured I&#8217;d give a chance since they&#8217;re free. The first one I read was a collection of {{Aesop&#8217;s fables}}. Some reactions: &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=757\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">reading via the kindle app<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,46],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-update"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}