{"id":2465,"date":"2011-12-11T20:35:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T00:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2011-12-11T20:35:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T00:35:14","slug":"more-of-december-and-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"More of December and the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>&#8216;ve been mostly<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2466\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2466\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sj_down_town_night-93x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Down town SJ\" width=\"93\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sj_down_town_night-93x150.jpg 93w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sj_down_town_night-187x300.jpg 187w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sj_down_town_night.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 93px) 100vw, 93px\" \/><\/a> reading books these days: The Iconia I bought for my birthday (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2418\">review<\/a>) is the ideal reading device. Well, mind the glare then: I&#8217;m sure that future devices will have touchscreens sans gloss. What&#8217;s the point of having a tablet if you can&#8217;t use it outside?\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyway: reading books. I was finally able to finish off a bunch of book series: I finished all of the Hunger Games books. I also finished off the &#8216;Sword of Truth&#8217; set: while I liked it, I thought the writing quality had its ups and downs. I thought the Harry Potter books were pleasant: as with the movies, they did go from &#8216;light-hearted&#8217; to mostly &#8216;dark&#8217;. Well, with the traditional happy end, because these are kids books, mostly. I have this feeling that JK Rowling will not produce anything of substance after finishing off HP.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve kept track of most books on Twitter: sadly, Twitter is not the best media to store &#8216;historical&#8217; data. Since I&#8217;m mostly using the Amazon Kindle reader, I was surprised to see that Amazon doesn&#8217;t really track which books I read. With envy I look at the Kobo reader, which has an excellent &#8216;social&#8217; media &#8216;tie-in&#8217; and &#8216;achievements&#8217;. I do find electronic books rather expensive. Oh well, back to reading my book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8216;ve been mostly reading books these days: The Iconia I bought for my birthday (review) is the ideal reading device. Well, mind the glare then: I&#8217;m sure that future devices will have touchscreens sans gloss. What&#8217;s the point of having &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2465\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[203,475,504,503,476,505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}