{"id":398,"date":"2010-08-08T09:49:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2010-08-08T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T14:52:36","slug":"ebooks-are-not-better-than-pbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"eBooks are not better than pBooks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-399\" href=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?attachment_id=399\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-399\" title=\"SC Beach\" src=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_44191-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_44191-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/38enso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_44191-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We went on vacation\u00a0near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoversouthcarolina.com\/cities\/153\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Charleston, South Carolina<\/span> <\/a>last week.\u00a0 It was a great family vacation with lots of sun, sand, beaches and occassional thunderstorm.\u00a0 Of the eight adults, everyone brought books.\u00a0 Physical books.\u00a0\u00a0 I brought my phone and eBook reader.\u00a0\u00a0 The first day we go to the beach.\u00a0\u00a0 The beaches in South Carloina are some of the finest in the world.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hot and the sun is scorching.\u00a0 While I was in the ocean, a thunderstorm rolled in and wiped out our stuff.\u00a0 My eReader included.<\/p>\n<p>eBook eReaders are NOT immune to rain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>eBook eReaders are NOT immune to sand.<\/p>\n<p>eBook eReaders are NOT immune to sun.<\/p>\n<p>My physical books are.\u00a0\u00a0 Sure they get a bit damaged and worn &#8212; but in the end they still are readable.\u00a0\u00a0 Plus losing a single pBook is not a tragedy.\u00a0 Losing one&#8217;s entire library is a tragedy.\u00a0\u00a0 For the rest of the week, I read my pBooks.<\/p>\n<p>I love eBooks, but there are still some functions that the good old physical book is superior.\u00a0\u00a0 Going the the beach and pool are one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went on vacation\u00a0near Charleston, South Carolina last week.\u00a0 It was a great family vacation with lots of sun, sand, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=398\" class=\"more-link\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}