{"id":2391,"date":"2011-11-27T07:21:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2011-11-27T07:21:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T12:21:24","slug":"a-warning-for-kindle-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/27\/a-warning-for-kindle-users\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warning for Kindle Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neo-Luddite that I am (I haven&#8217;t owned a TV for over 20 years), I greeted the arrival of Kindles and their ilk with great suspicion.  Now, courtesy of an article which appeared on the website of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourfuture.org\/blog-entry\/2011114725\/alexandria-zuccotti-park-theyve-destroyed-books-2000-years\">Campaign for America&#8217;s Future<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been vindicated.  The warning:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this rate, the &#8220;Firemen&#8221; in Ray Bradbury&#8217;s <em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em> will soon be obsolete. So will Bloomberg&#8217;s batallions. Soon a faceless bureaucrat or corporate lackey will be able to destroy every single copy of any &#8220;unauthorized&#8221; book &#8211; instantly, simultaneously, and permanently &#8211; with a single electronic command.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in reading the entire article, click on the link above.  I&#8217;m going to go read a book, thank you.  A real book, not an ersatz one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neo-Luddite that I am (I haven&#8217;t owned a TV for over 20 years), I greeted the arrival of Kindles and their ilk with great suspicion. Now, courtesy of an article which appeared on the website of Campaign for America&#8217;s Future, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/27\/a-warning-for-kindle-users\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}