{"id":746,"date":"2011-11-17T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2011-11-17T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T17:50:42","slug":"still-waiting-for-the-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/still-waiting-for-the-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Waiting for the Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I won&#8217;t get my Kindle Touch <a href=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/wheres-my-kindle\/\">until Monday<\/a>, but at least now that the Fire reviews have all posted, people are beginning to <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/reviews\/2011\/11\/ars-hands-on-the-kindle-touch.ars\">talk about the Touch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Awkward delays arise, and repainting of the e-Ink screen sometimes lags. But, overall, the experience is quite good and, in some situations, noticeably better than using the previous iteration&#8217;s buttons. This is especially true of picking items from lists or selecting text in specific areas of the screen\u00e2\u20ac\u201dtouch, even on a screen that isn&#8217;t especially responsive, is simply much faster than navigating via repeated button presses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also this: &#8220;But if your focus is on reading, I would actually recommend the bottom of the line model. It&#8217;s lighter and more comfortable to hold in one hand, and the touch screen doesn&#8217;t really make the page turning experience that much better.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I won&#8217;t get my Kindle Touch until Monday, but at least now that the Fire reviews have all posted, people are beginning to talk about the Touch: Awkward delays arise, and repainting of the e-Ink screen sometimes lags. But, overall, the experience is quite good and, in some situations, noticeably better than using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,52],"tags":[425,265,424],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-ebook","tag-kindle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-c2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}