{"id":6549,"date":"2026-07-30T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/amazons-short-story-collections-are-one-of-the-best-reasons-to-own-a-kindle\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:30:00","slug":"amazons-short-story-collections-are-one-of-the-best-reasons-to-own-a-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/amazons-short-story-collections-are-one-of-the-best-reasons-to-own-a-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s short story collections are one of the best reasons to own a Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 2024 Kindle Paperwhite.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25679990\/247326_Amazon_Kindle_2024_AKrales_0007.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last few years, I&#8217;ve gradually shifted away from ebooks. It&#8217;s been part of a general return to physical media, an attempt to create a deeper sense of ownership over the art I love and collect. A Kindle is obviously more convenient than a paperback: It&#8217;s tiny, holds a huge library, and you can purchase new books instantly. But, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/822849\/analogue-3d-review-n64\">much like with retro game cartridges<\/a>, I find there&#8217;s a deeper connection formed with a book dug out of a stack in a used book shop versus simply choosing the next thing in a series from a menu on an e-reader. But I haven&#8217;t completely given up on my Kindle, and there&#8217;s one big reason &#8211; actually, there are lots  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/972612\/amazons-kindle-short-stories\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few years, I&#8217;ve gradually shifted away from ebooks. It&#8217;s been part of a general return to physical media, an attempt to create a deeper sense of ownership over the art I love and collect. A Kindle is obviously more convenient than a paperback: It&#8217;s tiny, holds a huge library, and you can &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gundem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}