{"id":2530,"date":"2009-02-25T23:37:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T07:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2009-02-25T23:37:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T07:37:44","slug":"kindle-2-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"Kindle 2 envy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister just got her Kindle 2 from Amazon and I had to call to ask how it was. She&#8217;s been lording it over me that she had one on order and now she has it. I&#8217;m pretty jealous and I have dumb reasons on why I want one. I&#8217;ve read books on computer in the past, including almost ruining my eyes reading Diana Gabaldon&#8217;s <b>Outlander<\/b> on a Toshiba Dynabook with a failing backlight. She was an online friend and she sent me her book on floppy disks. But that&#8217;s not a big reason; I don&#8217;t need to make my eyes any worse. But I do have troubles reading books because I don&#8217;t break the spine on books and I often hold them with my left hand. My hand cramps up and makes it difficult to keep reading. I figure the Kindle 2 might help. It&#8217;s really just a case of gadget lust.<\/p>\n<p>I felt a lot better at the gym today, though it&#8217;s probably psychological and not physiological. Though I agree with Megan that I&#8217;m getting old, I&#8217;m going to keep pretending that I&#8217;m not. But I do keep seeing pictures of myself and wonder who the old guy came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister just got her Kindle 2 from Amazon and I had to call to ask how it was. She&#8217;s been lording it over me that she had one on order and now she has it. I&#8217;m pretty jealous and I have dumb reasons on why I want one. I&#8217;ve read books on computer in the past, including almost ruining my eyes reading Diana Gabaldon&#8217;s Outlander on a Toshiba Dynabook with a failing backlight. She was an online friend and she sent me her book on floppy disks. But that&#8217;s not a big reason; I don&#8217;t need to make my eyes any worse. But I do have troubles reading books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kindle 2 envy.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}