{"id":80,"date":"2006-01-22T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:02:08","slug":"will-e-books-finally-take-off-i-hope-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Will e-books finally take off?  I hope so."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terryteachout.com\">Terry Teachout<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB113779027926552261.html\">WSJ article<\/a> about the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/products.sel.sony.com\/pa\/PRS\/\">Sony Reader <\/a>and what this might mean to reading and publishing renews my enthusiasm about having an ebook reader that&#8217;s separate from my computer. For one thing, having most everything I need with me at all times would be great. I&#8217;ve got a zillion academic books that I&#8217;d prefer to have in digital form, which would save shelf space for all my different editions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poldy.com\">Ulysses<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI can also see subscribing to magazines that way in the same way I now subscribe to podcasts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,70039-0.html?tw=rss.technology\">Wired has also just published a good article on the Reader<\/a>, with a few pictures. Am looking forward to holding one of these in my hand.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHmmmm&#8230; it seems like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptonomicon.net\/msh\/2006\/01\/mac-users-to-go-through-hoops-to-use.html\">Mac users will be left out in the cold<\/a> with this device. I wonder if Steve Jobs has something even better up his sleeve or if Sony is going to do anything to accomodate Mac users. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Teachout&#8216;s WSJ article about the upcoming Sony Reader and what this might mean to reading and publishing renews my enthusiasm about having an ebook reader that&#8217;s separate from my computer. For one thing, having most everything I need with me at all times would be great. I&#8217;ve got a zillion academic books that I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices","category-teaching-and-technology","category-worldlit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}