{"id":9139,"date":"2013-11-28T11:57:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9139"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:23:04","slug":"technology-changes-everything-including-how-you-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/technology-changes-everything-including-how-you-read","title":{"rendered":"Technology Changes Everything, Including How You Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Each new technology revolutionizes how we approach life and what we do in it. Take my new Kindle Fire HD for example. Before, I simply picked up a book \u2013 whether it be hardback or paperback \u2013 and start reading. Usually if there was a busy day ahead of me, each time I picked up a book I\u2019d simply read a chapter, bookmark it \u2013 a lot of the cases being \u201cdog ears,\u201d unfortunately \u2013 and place it to the side, ready for another chapter to be read for another time.<\/p>\n

This was a relatively comfortable motion of life that I adhered to. I read a lot. Though of course there were the slight annoyances that could be made known, but were fortunately tolerable. For example, if you don\u2019t have a real bookmark, you then have to ruin the pages by flapping down a top corner of the page you were last reading from. That was a slight nuisance. Another example being, given I had a busy day and thus in need of scheduling, the fact that I had no clue as to how long it would take me to read the chapter, then placed me in a unfortunate position of not knowing how my day will be handled. At times, though rare, I couldn\u2019t even finish a chapter because it was taking too long and I had to get things done.<\/p>\n

So back to my Kindle Fire, these slight annoyances as an avid reader have been completely expropriated! Most MOBI-formatted books are well organized and easily readable. So when I\u2019m reading, the Kindle Fire allows me to simply tap the top right corner and instantly bookmarks the page I\u2019m reading. No \u201cdog ears,\u201d no unnecessary pieces of paper needing to be bought to be used as one. If I\u2019m curious as to how long the chapter I\u2019m reading will take, I simply tap the bottom left corner and it not only gives me the # of minutes left in reading the chapter, but the number of hours it\u2019ll take for me to read the entire book. It detects my reading pattern via its sensors and calculates an estimation of how long each page is read, each chapter, the entire book. I also quite enjoy the fact that it provides a % of how much the book I\u2019ve read so far.<\/p>\n

This changes a lot for me as a reader. And really, while I\u2019ve labeled them as slight annoyances, thinking back, I\u2019m not sure how I could\u2019ve tolerated such things. Then again, my love for reading always dominated my desire for perfection. But before the Kindle, there were still such a thing as digital books, which were formatted as PDFs (Portable Document Format). I\u2019ve got a LOT of PDFs on my laptop! But then PDFs are incapable of creating bookmarks, and they weren\u2019t exactly mobile-oriented like a normal hardback\/paperback book was. That was an even greater nuisance to reading than normal books provided.<\/p>\n

Kindle, however, destroyed those annoyances. Completely. It\u2019s really easy to carry around. It doesn\u2019t take up much space at all. It carries thousands of books, and much more when accessing its cloud server. Its battery life is top notch. It detects and learns your reading pattern. It connects to your online accounts. It integrates itself into your life in mere minutes!<\/p>\n

When it comes to a reader, it changes everything. And that is revolutionary!<\/p>\n

The article above was originally published as a blog post on The Proactionary Transhumanist<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each new technology revolutionizes how we approach life and what we do in it. Take my new Kindle Fire HD for example. Before, I simply picked up a book \u2013 whether it be hardback or paperback \u2013 and start reading. Usually if there was a busy day ahead of me, each time I picked up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51859,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions\/51859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}