{"id":123,"date":"2013-01-19T03:21:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T03:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/?p=123"},"modified":"2013-01-28T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T02:30:07","slug":"kindle-is-not-just-for-kindle-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/kindle-is-not-just-for-kindle-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Is Not Just for Kindle Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wanted to make sure everyone was aware that you don’t need to own a Kindle device to buy and read a Kindle e-book. I don’t have a Kindle device, but I do have Kindle e-books that I read on my laptop and netbook. It’s free to download the Kindle reader to your PC<\/a> or your tablet or your iPhone<\/a>, and then you can read e-books on them — e-books such as\u00a0The Mountain School<\/em>.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wanted to make sure everyone was aware that you don’t need to own a Kindle device to buy and read a Kindle e-book. I don’t have a Kindle device, but I do have Kindle e-books that I read on my laptop and netbook. It’s free to download the Kindle reader to your PC or your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8huLi-1Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":536,"url":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/south-africa-postal-workers-strike\/","url_meta":{"origin":123,"position":0},"title":"South Africa postal workers strike","author":"Greg Alder","date":"November 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Never imagined I'd be affected by one of the many strikes that are constantly happening in South Africa, but now a box of my books (\"The Mountain School\") are in limbo in a warehouse somewhere, part of the \"mountain of mail\" that the South African Post Office says they're sitting\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":384,"url":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/barbara-kingsolver-urban-vs-rural\/","url_meta":{"origin":123,"position":1},"title":"Barbara Kingsolver: Urban vs Rural","author":"Greg Alder","date":"April 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my least admirable qualities, according to my wife, is that I quit books. 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