{"id":62,"date":"2009-11-18T23:23:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T16:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-12-24T04:33:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:33:55","slug":"reading-on-tiny-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Reading on Tiny Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FD owns a cell phone. \u00a0But it serves more like a good luck charm, carried just in case there&#8217;s some sort of emergency. \u00a0It&#8217;s years old, it&#8217;s never turned on (which might not be a good idea in an emergency) and no one has the number. \u00a0Occasionally,\u00a0 FD uses it to call Mr FD after a medical appointment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This morning, the NYTimes reports that other people are reading whole novels on their phones. \u00a0FD knew that the Japanese were writing cell-phone specific novels, and it was no surprise to hear that the NYTimes had noticed that US cell phones were also being used to read novels. \u00a0Last January, a friend brought out her phone and showed a group of us how clear text appeared and how pleasant such reading could be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FD is sad. \u00a0FD used to be an early adopter of technology and an ardent believer that the future would offer delights unknown to the past. \u00a0But, now the future of books appears to be shrinking to the size of a telephone screen, and that doesn&#8217;t seem delightful at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FD owns a cell phone. \u00a0But it serves more like a good luck charm, carried just in case there&#8217;s some sort of emergency. \u00a0It&#8217;s years old, it&#8217;s never turned on (which might not be a good idea in an emergency) and no one has the number. \u00a0Occasionally,\u00a0 FD uses it to call Mr FD after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}