{"id":4011,"date":"2013-03-21T08:07:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2013-06-15T17:39:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T21:39:57","slug":"one-thing-about-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"one thing about amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of reasons to like and dislike Amazon, but I did want to mention one thing that impressed me today. <\/p>\n<p>I have a Kindle Touch. Which is not the most recent Kindle (that&#8217;s the PaperWhite) .\u00a0 When the PaperWhite first came out, which was well over a year ago, the Touch was even removed from the Amazon website for a while (though I notice that it&#8217;s back now). <\/p>\n<p>But this morning my Kindle Touch got a major software update, including adding (as much as possible) the new features which came along with the PaperWhite.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for me, some of those features are unnecessary (parental controls), and some of them are silly (a thing that guesses how long it will take you to finish a book based on how long it&#8217;s taken you to get to where you are now), but the interface seems better, and at least they didn&#8217;t take away Text-to-Speech just because the PaperWhite doesn&#8217;t have it. <\/p>\n<p>In one way of looking at it, it&#8217;s nice of Amazon to continue to update older hardware, but I think it&#8217;s really more &#8220;smart&#8221; than &#8220;nice.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>They know, I think, that Kindle users are mostly not techno-geeks. Kindle users are readers (who may also be techno-geeks, of course). Kindle owners don&#8217;t automatically lust after every new Kindle model that comes out. (I see a lot of older Kindles on the subway &ndash; and in fact I still see the Touch more often than the PaperWhite.) <\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s pretty smart to work to keep the existing user base happy. Because then they&#8217;ll keep buying more books.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Amazon did just give me a credit of 16 cents (plus 2 cents tax!) because an item I&#8217;d purchase had dropped in price after I&#8217;d placed my order.<\/p>\n<p><em>That<\/em> was nice, right?<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F4011&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F4011&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of reasons to like and dislike Amazon, but I did want to mention one thing that impressed me today. I have a Kindle Touch. Which is not the most recent Kindle (that&#8217;s the PaperWhite) .\u00a0 When the PaperWhite first came out, which was well over a year ago, the Touch was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}