{"id":263,"date":"2007-05-01T19:40:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T00:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=263"},"modified":"2025-01-14T00:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T00:49:44","slug":"olpc-as-e-book-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"OLPC as e-book reader."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So why would I buy a Sony reader when I could get this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/378107723_bee281ed84.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/378107723_bee281ed84.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/378107723_bee281ed84-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/378107723_bee281ed84-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not too happy about the position of the forward and back buttons, but for $175 I could live with it. Compare the functionality of that versus the Sony Reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why would I buy a Sony reader when I could get this: I&#8217;m not too happy about the position of the forward and back buttons, but for $175 I could live with it. Compare the functionality of that versus the Sony Reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}