{"id":10195,"date":"2011-09-28T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/09\/28\/the-kindle-fire-is-out-and-i-m\/"},"modified":"2011-09-28T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:47:46","slug":"the-kindle-fire-is-out-and-i-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/28\/the-kindle-fire-is-out-and-i-m\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindle Fire is Out and I Might Want One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn them.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0051VVOB2\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=B0051VVOB2\">Kindle Fire<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0051VVOB2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> is about the same price as the higher end Kindle that I bought Julia just before her trip overseas&#8230;. oh well.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Kindle Fire is an android based tablet designed to be an ebook.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why I want one:  An iPad, which is also an eBook reader but that does a lot more stuff than a Kindle Fire, weighs 1.33 pounds.  The Kindle Fire weighs 14.6 ounces.  That puts the Kindle Fire just under the threshold for comfortable reading where you don&#8217;t have to prop it up.  I&#8217;d like it to be lighter, but that&#8217;s a good start.  (The regular Kindle, by the way, weighs about 6 ounces.)<\/p>\n<p>The other nice thing about the Fire is that it does not require a computer to operate.  The iPad does, even though it might not seem like it.  Eventually, you&#8217;re going to want to hook your iPad up to a computer, but the Fire is designed to never need to do that. Since I don&#8217;t own a Mac, and my Windows computer that runs iTunes is in the Computer Hospice, that matters.  Amanda&#8217;s iPad is about to become obsolete just sitting there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn them. The Kindle Fire is about the same price as the higher end Kindle that I bought Julia just before her trip overseas&#8230;. oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[738,4365,4366,4000,2416,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Er","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}