{"id":450,"date":"2009-02-10T20:22:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T03:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2009-02-15T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T17:01:18","slug":"the-amazon-kindle-longevity-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/the-amazon-kindle-longevity-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"The missing slide from Amazon&#8217;s Kindle 2 launch: longevity comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-451 aligncenter\" title=\"Amazon Kindle Longevity Comparison\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-11-300x224.png\" alt=\"Amazon Kindle Longevity Comparison\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-11-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-11.png 821w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00154JDAI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thelitteinlit-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle<\/a> once Amazon&#8217;s device can win in a longevity comparison with a traditional book. As you can see from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/amazon_kindle_secret_slide.ppt\" target=\"_blank\">PowerPoint slide<\/a> above, it still has a long way to go, as the Kindle lasts about 14 months, while the 1766 edition of Thomas Paine&#8217;s pamphlet has lasted 243 years and counting. In the meantime, you can pre-order the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00154JDAI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thelitteinlit-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle 2;<\/a> just don&#8217;t expect it to last more that two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll buy a Kindle once Amazon&#8217;s device can win in a longevity comparison with a traditional book. As you can see from the PowerPoint slide above, it still has a long way to go, as the Kindle lasts about 14 months, while the 1766 edition of Thomas Paine&#8217;s pamphlet has lasted 243 years and counting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,5,4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}