{"id":1384,"date":"2010-07-20T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:00","slug":"so-hows-that-e-reader-making-your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"So, how&#8217;s that e-reader making your poetry look?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do any of the Poetry Peeps out there read poetry on a Kindle or Sony Reader? I&#8217;m just wondering, because I ran across this article in the SF Chronicle &#8212; quoting Billy Collins &#8212; he&#8217;s not a fan: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Billy Collins, one of the country&#8217;s most popular poets, had never seen his work in e-book form until he recently downloaded his latest collection on his Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>He was unpleasantly surprised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more: <a target= _blank href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/07\/18\/BUN21EFS7H.DTL&#038;feed=rss.technology#ixzz0uEFOb0de\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is so hard to reproduce stanza and lines length appropriately even on a blog for Poetry Friday, much less on a digital reader which is more concerned with the words than the poetic form. Sooo, e-tailers are supposed to do something about this. Eventually. But I have a feeling they&#8217;re not that bothered by the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do any of the Poetry Peeps out there read poetry on a Kindle or Sony Reader? I&#8217;m just wondering, because I ran across this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6150,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}