{"id":1888,"date":"2007-11-21T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/11\/21\/enkindle-and-enlighten\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T17:13:13","slug":"enkindle-and-enlighten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/enkindle-and-enlighten\/","title":{"rendered":"Enkindle and Enlighten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kindle_metblog.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2007\/11\/kindle_metblog.jpg?resize=399%2C360\" width=\"399\" height=\"360\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>The release of Amazon&#8217;s new e-book reader, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FI73MA?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechunk-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000FI73MA\">Kindle<\/a>, is creating quite a buzz in the tech industry. Any time a large player steps into a market that has had trouble in the past, it&#8217;s big news.<\/p>\n<p>The Kindle includes a wireless capability and can download blog content in addition to books. You can see where I&#8217;m going with this&#8230;the Metroblogging family of blogs is one of many blogs available for subscription on Kindle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Metroblogging-Austin\/dp\/B000N8V2HE\/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1195664128&amp;sr=1-8\">including this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why pay for something that you can get free otherwise? I&#8217;m not sure, but I wouldn&#8217;t pay $400 for a book reader either.<\/p>\n<p>Still it&#8217;s kinda cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The release of Amazon&#8217;s new e-book reader, Kindle, is creating quite a buzz in the tech industry. Any time a large player steps into a market that has had trouble in the past, it&#8217;s big news. The Kindle includes a wireless capability and can download blog content in addition to books. You can see where <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/enkindle-and-enlighten\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-us","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}