{"id":1793,"date":"2012-04-26T21:08:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T21:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2012-09-13T18:33:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T18:33:11","slug":"book-log-falling-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; falling behind&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Falling behind isn&#8217;t the name of a book, it&#8217;s my state of being.<\/p>\n<p>There are obvious upsides and downsides to a Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>On the upsides, I&#8217;m getting a lot more reading done, and I love the e-Ink screen.  The light on the case makes it easy to read while putting the kids to sleep without searching for my always missing flashlight or book cliplight.  The Kindle&#8217;s always with me, at work, in the car, whereever.  If I&#8217;ve got 5 minutes to kill, I&#8217;ve got a good way to kill it handy.<\/p>\n<p>The downsides are primarily that I&#8217;m a little too Amazon-centric as it is, and it is Way Too Easy to buy a book.  I&#8217;m going to reign that in.  Really.<\/p>\n<p>But also, I fall behind in this blog.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m making some notes on recently read books I need to write about:<\/p>\n<p><em>God, No!<\/em> by Pen Jillette<br \/>\n<em>Rhubarb<\/em> by M.H. Van Keuren (I really want to talk abou this one)<br \/>\n<em>You Are Not So Smart<\/em> by David McRaney<\/p>\n<p>All three of these deserve more than a paragraph of commentary, so&#8230; until there is time, there they&#8217;ll sit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falling behind isn&#8217;t the name of a book, it&#8217;s my state of being. There are obvious upsides and downsides to a Kindle. On the upsides, I&#8217;m getting a lot more reading done, and I love the e-Ink screen. The light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1793\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[481],"tags":[486],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","tag-book-log-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}