{"id":9230,"date":"2011-08-16T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2011-08-16T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T20:11:00","slug":"microsoft-reader-ebook-software-on-the-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9230","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Reader eBook software on the way out&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d mention this because I&#8217;m going to miss the <strong>Microsoft Reader <\/strong>software and <strong>.LIT<\/strong> format. I read some of my first eBooks in <strong>.LIT<\/strong> on my PC and always found it a supreme experience: diamond-sharp display and easy-to-read fonts, text-to-speech function, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft Reader eBook Software retires...\" href=\"http:\/\/mobiputing.com\/2011\/08\/microsoft-reader-ebook-software-has-a-year-left-to-live\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Mobiputing<\/strong><\/a> says the software is going to be retired.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d always hoped they&#8217;d find a compatible eBook Reading device and give the rest of the market a run for the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d mention this because I&#8217;m going to miss the Microsoft Reader software and .LIT format. I read some of my first eBooks in .LIT on my PC and always found it a supreme experience: diamond-sharp display and easy-to-read fonts, text-to-speech function, etc. Mobiputing says the software is going to be retired. I&#8217;d always &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9230\">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":[3,4,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230"}],"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=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9236,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions\/9236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}