{"id":1425,"date":"2009-03-27T01:32:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T06:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2009-03-27T01:32:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T06:32:54","slug":"repostsignalling-ang-the-kindlemarginal-revolution-tom-foster-on-the-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/27\/repostsignalling-ang-the-kindlemarginal-revolution-tom-foster-on-the-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Signalling ang The Kindle:Marginal Revolution: Tom Foster on the Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 210px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/product\/amazon-kindle\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Image representing Amazon Kindle as depicted i...\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.crunchbase.com\/assets\/images\/resized\/0002\/2130\/22130v1-max-450x450.png?resize=200%2C58\" alt=\"Image representing Amazon Kindle as depicted i...\" width=\"200\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\">CrunchBase<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This makes me wonder what is far stronger the need to signal what you are reading or the ability to hide what you are reading?? See, I&#8217;ve read a few books that I&#8217;d call my guilty <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Indulgence\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indulgence\">indulgences<\/a>, books I wouldn&#8217;t read in public or without their covers covered. And yes if you look at my desk I have a couple of these books, and with the ability to hide them effectively they would comprise a larger percentage of the books I own.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wonder if <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Amazon Kindle\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\">Kindle<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Advocate\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advocate\">advocates<\/a> are underestimating how important it is for people to show those around them not just that they like to read, but also what they like to read?<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2009\/03\/tom-foster-on-the-kindle.html\">Marginal Revolution: Tom Foster on the Kindle<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/0d865792-9a14-450b-8357-e49202a31281\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via CrunchBase This makes me wonder what is far stronger the need to signal what you are reading or the ability to hide what you are reading?? See, I&#8217;ve read a few books that I&#8217;d call my guilty indulgences, books I wouldn&#8217;t read in public or without their covers covered. And yes if you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/27\/repostsignalling-ang-the-kindlemarginal-revolution-tom-foster-on-the-kindle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Signalling ang The Kindle:Marginal Revolution: Tom Foster on the Kindle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[157,158,185,254,477,483,584,685,730,886,1177,1307,1420],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","tag-amazon-kindle","tag-amazoncom","tag-arts","tag-books","tag-education","tag-eighteenth-century","tag-foster-care","tag-history","tag-industrial-revolution","tag-marginal-revolution","tag-reading","tag-society-and-culture","tag-tom-foster"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}