{"id":767,"date":"2012-04-13T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T05:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2012-04-13T22:18:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T05:18:17","slug":"updating-the-kindle-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/updating-the-kindle-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating the Kindle Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005890G8Y\/ref=famstripe_kt\">Kindle Touch<\/a> for my <a href=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/still-waiting-for-the-kindle\/\">birthday last year<\/a>, although it didn&#8217;t arrive until around Thanksgiving. It has been something of a disappointment. My one child got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/p\/nook-simple-touch-barnes-noble\/1102344735\">Barnes &#038; Noble Nook<\/a> about the same time, and it is by far the better product. (I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2011\/12\/02\/kindle-touch-vs-nook-simple-touch-kobo-touch-kindle-4\">not alone<\/a> in that assessment.) (While I&#8217;m sure about the Nook, I&#8217;m not sure about Barnes &#038; Noble. I chose the Amazon product to access the Amazon market. If ebook readers used a common industry-wide format, the Nook would be a no-brainer.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the Kindle Touch is a few grams too heavy to be comfortable, and the user interface is &#8230; well, there&#8217;s no way to sugarcoat this: it stinks. You never know where to press because sometimes you press in the invisible right-hand zone to move forward. Sometimes you &#8220;flick&#8221; things up from the bottom. To go forward you tap the right side. To go backward you flick the left. And so on.<\/p>\n<p>But I see there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html\/ref=hp_left_ac?ie=UTF8&#038;nodeId=200529680\">new firmware update for the Touch<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s any good, but it can hardly be any worse. I&#8217;m installing it as I type this. I&#8217;ll let you know how it works out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a Kindle Touch for my birthday last year, although it didn&#8217;t arrive until around Thanksgiving. It has been something of a disappointment. My one child got a Barnes &#038; Noble Nook about the same time, and it is by far the better product. (I&#8217;m not alone in that assessment.) (While I&#8217;m sure about [&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":[425,496,265,495,494,424,497],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-barnes-noble","tag-ebook","tag-firmware","tag-gizmo","tag-kindle","tag-nook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-cn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}