{"id":3139,"date":"2009-06-23T04:08:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T04:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2009-06-23T04:13:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T04:13:31","slug":"kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3139","title":{"rendered":"Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My Father’s Day Gift this year, from my always\u00a0thoughtful, technophile spouse, \u00a0Mrs. Zenpundit<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I would expound at length on the wonders of The Kindle<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0except that the package only arrived this afternoon and the device is charging on the kitchen countertop downstairs. I expect that this will a) reduce some<\/em><\/strong> of my book buying expenses*<\/strong> b) get me back into reading a whole newspaper, maybe FT.com<\/a><\/strong>, CSM<\/a><\/strong> or the NYT<\/strong> <\/a>instead of reading random articles online, and c) be a much more convenient way to read my favorite blogs on the go than on my crackberry’s tiny interface.<\/p>\n

The Eldest<\/strong> and the Son of Zenpundit<\/strong> gave me the following (with a little “help” from me):<\/p>\n

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The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by James Palmer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The biography of\u00a0 “the Mad Baron” of the Russian civil war,\u00a0 General Baron Ungern von Sternberg<\/strong> <\/a>of the White armies, a Cossack host\u00a0and eventually, the Mongols. One of the strangest warlords of the 20th century<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* some books you need to own. Others can just be read. I put most fiction in that category, along with contemporary hyperpartisan\u00a0politics, business books, memoirs of the niche famous and misc. subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Father’s Day Gift this year, from my always\u00a0thoughtful, technophile spouse, \u00a0Mrs. Zenpundit.\u00a0 I would expound at length on the wonders of The Kindle\u00a0except that the package only arrived this afternoon and the device is charging on the kitchen countertop downstairs. I expect that this will a) reduce some of my book buying expenses* b) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,128,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-personal","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}