{"id":45,"date":"2009-12-12T18:09:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T01:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2010-05-04T22:22:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T05:22:25","slug":"the-ebook-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"The eBook Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve got Kindle for iPhone, and I absolutely love reading books on  it. But I&#8217;ve held off on buying very many because I wanted to play the  &#8220;wait and see&#8221; game with the Nook, etc. Since the devices themselves  hold very little interest for me (why would I carry around another  device when my iPhone works great?), it&#8217;s the distribution platforms  they&#8217;re based on that I&#8217;m most interested in.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Amazon  seems to have the best deal going, and I&#8217;m just about to pull the  trigger on a whole bunch of books. I&#8217;m mainly worried about Kindle for  PC and the upcoming Kindle for Mac. They look nice, but I&#8217;m not sure how  the whole DRM thing works. I reinstall my operating systems with a  blistering frequency, and I don&#8217;t want to end up with unreadable books.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive  me if I&#8217;m the only one with a memory, but I went through this whole  mess <em><strong>years<\/strong><\/em> ago with Microsoft Reader. I bought a bunch of  books to read on my computer and Pocket PC, but I can&#8217;t read ANY of them  anymore because I &#8220;activated&#8221; them on &#8220;too many devices&#8221;, so they will  no longer open.<\/p>\n<p>I really hope that doesn&#8217;t happen again. Ugh. I  hate DRM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve got Kindle for iPhone, and I absolutely love reading books on it. But I&#8217;ve held off on buying very many because I wanted to play the &#8220;wait and see&#8221; game with the Nook, etc. Since the devices themselves hold very little interest for me (why would I carry around another device when my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}