{"id":490,"date":"2008-06-10T22:10:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T05:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2008-06-10T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T05:11:01","slug":"ebook-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"e-book reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sony_Reader\">e-book reader<\/a> for my birthday! It&#8217;s very shiny. Comparable to the weight of a small hardback, with an internal memory of 200MB (doesn&#8217;t sound a lot, but novels don&#8217;t take up much space), and expansion slots for SD and Memory Stick Pro Duo. The e-ink technology is impressive &#8211; I checked it out while I was at the LA Times Book Festival some weeks ago, and it&#8217;s perfectly readable even in bright sunshine. And it doesn&#8217;t use any power except when changing a page, which means long battery life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/calibre.kovidgoyal.net\/\">calibre<\/a> to do library management, which works well, and so far I have uploaded a few Cory Doctorow novels. It (calibre) also interfaces with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">LibraryThing<\/a> which is a very lightweight approach to keeping ones catalogue of books online. Since I already have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/library\/books.html\">my print books<\/a> online, I&#8217;ll probably use LibraryThing for my e-books only.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m also checking out the various sources of free books on the web. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Project Gutenberg<\/a> of course, and also the forums over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileread.com\/\">mobileread.com<\/a> seem to be a great resource.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, enough writing for now. I have a lot of reading to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an e-book reader for my birthday! It&#8217;s very shiny. Comparable to the weight of a small hardback, with an internal memory of 200MB (doesn&#8217;t sound a lot, but novels don&#8217;t take up much space), and expansion slots for SD and Memory Stick Pro Duo. The e-ink technology is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}