{"id":5040,"date":"2010-07-31T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:10:37","slug":"i-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/i-was-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"I was wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>I know. Go ahead and laugh or faint or whatever. I\u2019ll wait until you\u2019ve got yourself back together again.<\/p>\n<p>Long story told in bullet-point lists:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post\">\n<li class=\"post\">Saw a Sony at Target. The screen looked like a dot matrix printer (aka like crap). I decided eInk was not for me.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">Amazon pulled some crappy things, which confirmed my opinion of crap.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">My mother-in-law got a Kindle for Christmas and I fondled it. It didn\u2019t look anything like the Sony at Target.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about my MIL\u2019s Kindle.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">I had an increasing need to see what my formatting looked like on the device itself.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about my MIL\u2019s Kindle.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">I had an increasing need to see what my formatting looked like on the device itself.<\/li>\n<li class=\"post\">Amazon put up their refurbs for $110.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve had it for about a week now. I love it, but I do have some issues and (surprise!) it hasn\u2019t diminished my love for my eBookWise or my BlackBerry. They\u2019re like children: All different, all equally loved for different reasons.<\/p>\n<p>One of my issues with the Kindle is how light and skinny and fragile it is. I know this is supposed to be a plus, but after holding my eBookWise for the last 2-1\/2 years, its weight and ergonomic design has spoiled me. The eBookWise feels like a book, only a lot more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I desperately needed a case for my Kindle to protect it, but geez, people $30? No matter how much I liked my MIL\u2019s case, I figured I could do original-and-cheaper on my own. (Well, hey, that\u2019s how I got into this book publishing business in the first place, my tendency to DIY \u2026 everything.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve made a prototype. I think there are better ways to do this and better designs. I\u2019m going to live with this one for a while and see what I\u2019d change, what other features I might like, a better\/more efficient way to build it.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Prototype Number One (mouse over the pictures to see the commentary):<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a Kindle. I know. Go ahead and laugh or faint or whatever. I\u2019ll wait until you\u2019ve got yourself back together again. Long story told in bullet-point lists: Saw a Sony at Target. The screen looked like a dot matrix printer (aka like crap). I decided eInk was not for me. Amazon pulled some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-ebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16714,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/16714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}