{"id":637,"date":"2009-01-23T09:25:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T14:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2009-01-23T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T14:30:34","slug":"an-apology-to-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"An apology to Kindle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for dissing you <a title=\"Kindle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device\/dp\/B000FI73MA\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Author Boy, <a title=\"Author Boy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanhalpin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Halpin<\/a>, straightened me out on Kindle&#8217;s format reading capabilities. They go beyond the Kindle format alone, and you are not limited to Whispernet for downloads. You can access other eBooks via a USB cable. Also, Amazon converts Word files and structured html files for a small fee.<\/p>\n<p>Kindle supports Mobipocket books (MOBI, .PRC), plain text files, and their own proprietary DRM-restricted format (AZW). Not completely supportive of PDF but they&#8217;re working on it. Third party software can correct this PDF thing more easily.<\/p>\n<p>A full description of Kindle&#8217;s superpowers at Wikipedia <a title=\"Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kindle\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks&#8230; <a title=\"Brendan Halpin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanhalpin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Author Boy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>p.s. Kindle&#8217;s eBooks are still too expensive&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=eboorumo-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=26&#038;l=ur1&#038;category=kindle&#038;banner=1VW4WBP63FJN3CB2ETG2&#038;f=ifr\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for dissing you Kindle&#8230; Author Boy, Brendan Halpin, straightened me out on Kindle&#8217;s format reading capabilities. They go beyond the Kindle format alone, and you are not limited to Whispernet for downloads. You can access other eBooks via a USB cable. Also, Amazon converts Word files and structured html files for a small fee. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=637\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}