{"id":698,"date":"2012-10-12T18:15:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewthornway.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2012-10-24T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T13:57:16","slug":"the-kindle-paperwhite-is-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"The Kindle Paperwhite is almost here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So long Kindle Touch \u2013 my favourite Kindle device is no more. Amazon have decided to no longer sell that wonderful eReader, as their new flagship device, the Kindle Paperwhite, is taking over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What\u2019s different about the Kindle Paperwhite? Well, you\u2019ll no longer have to clip that annoying, cheap\u00a0little light which you received\u00a0last Christmas on to your Kindle\u2019s protective cover while you read\u00a0your latest ebook\u00a0*cough*Rispin Quill, The Dragon Tongue*cough* in bed\u00a0\u2013 this baby has an illuminated screen which uses Amazon\u2019s patented magic, enabling the Kindle Paperwhite to somehow direct light back down towards the appliance, so not to scorch your eyeballs \/ to make reading easier. One or the other. Possibly both. The battery doesn\u2019t seem to be troubled by this new development \u2013\u00a0apparently it can still last up to eight weeks on a single charge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amazon are taking orders <a title=\"Buy a Kindle Paperwhite from Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Kindle-Paperwhite-Resolution-Display-Built-\/dp\/B007OZO03M\/ref=sr_tr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1350061637&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>for the Kindle Paperwhite (which will be released in the UK on Thursday 25th October 2012). Price:\u00a0\u00a3109 for the <a title=\"Kindle Paperwhite WI-Fi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Kindle-Paperwhite-Resolution-Display-Built-\/dp\/B007OZO03M\/ref=sr_tr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1350076583&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Wi-Fi<\/a> version and \u00a3169 for the <a title=\"Kindle Paperwhite G3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Kindle-Paperwhite-Resolution-Display-Built-\/dp\/B007OZNWRC\/ref=sr_tr_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1350076583&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">G3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So long Kindle Touch \u2013 my favourite Kindle device is no more. Amazon have decided to no longer sell that wonderful eReader, as their new flagship device, the Kindle Paperwhite, is taking over. What\u2019s different about the Kindle Paperwhite? Well, you\u2019ll no longer have to clip that annoying, cheap\u00a0little light which you received\u00a0last Christmas on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/?p=698\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Kindle Paperwhite is almost here&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[65,114,112,113,115],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-thornway-home-page","tag-andrew-thornway","tag-author-andrew-thornway","tag-kindle-paperwhite","tag-kindle-touch","tag-rispin-quill-the-dragon-tongue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}