{"id":4437,"date":"2013-10-19T01:10:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T05:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2013-10-26T08:42:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T12:42:59","slug":"its-too-bad-about-the-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=4437","title":{"rendered":"it’s too bad about the kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a moment when I thought (well, hoped) that e-readers and tablets might both be allowed to evolve. I was hoping for a Kindle with a few more features, but with all the advantages of an e-reader. <\/p>\n

But, no. After all, selling the device is not the point. Amazon doesn't make money on the device; they make money on the content. And they can sell you a lot more different types of content on a Kindle Fire than they can on a Kindle. <\/p>\n

So, the newer Kindles have fewer capabilities, not more. You want more than the minimum? Buy a Fire. <\/p>\n

My dream Kindle? <\/p>\n

- A real keyboard and<\/em> a touch screen (why the heck not?) <\/p>\n

- A simple but usable built-in note-taking program<\/p>\n

- A basic (very basic) email client<\/p>\n

- A slightly more functional music player <\/p>\n

And, of course, Text-to-Speech, which the older Kindles have but the current ones don't. <\/p>\n

Not a lot to ask (according to me, anyway), but it's not going to happen.<\/p>\n

Oh, well. In general, nobody ever got rich designing things for me. When I was married, if we saw a new TV show that we really liked, we'd try to figure out how quickly it would be canceled. It was usually pretty quick. <\/p>\n

I remember a great show called \"Empire\" (six episodes), and what was that one where they were writing a soap opera...<\/p>\n

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There was a moment when I thought (well, hoped) that e-readers and tablets might both be allowed to evolve. I was hoping for a Kindle with a few more features, but with all the advantages of an e-reader. But, no. After all, selling the device is not the point. Amazon doesn’t make money on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-topics","tag-kindle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","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=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}