{"id":4244,"date":"2008-02-12T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2017-11-23T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T18:47:57","slug":"heretics-in-the-temple-of-bibliophilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/heretics-in-the-temple-of-bibliophilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Heretics in the Temple of Bibliophilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Postrel and friend endorse the Amazon Kindle because it takes up less space than books.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamist.com\/weblog\/archives\/002671.html\" target=\"_blank\">Postrel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I love books too, and I wouldn&#8217;t want to relinquish all those individual physical volumes for an electronic reader. But, that said, I had to give up hundreds of books when I moved back to L.A., because there just wasn&#8217;t room for them all. I buy a lot fewer books than I would if I didn&#8217;t have to store them (and live in fear of having them fall on my head in an earthquake). So maybe I need a Kindle after all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willwilkinson.net\/flybottle\/2008\/02\/04\/the-wave-of-the-future-not-not-very-good\/\" target=\"_blank\">Friend<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI am inundated in books. I have way too many. I have no place to put them. I often can&#8217;t find them when I want them. I often don&#8217;t know what I want to read on a trip, so I carry six heavy books with me, which sucks.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heresy!  Heresy!  Do you know what I do when I run out of space for books?  <i>I buy a bigger house!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Tam of the <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/teaser_11.html\" target=\"_blank\">mere sixty boxes<\/a> understands.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen elsewhere on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamist.com\/weblog\/archives\/002716.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dynamist.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Postrel and friend endorse the Amazon Kindle because it takes up less space than books. Postrel: I love books too, and I wouldn&#8217;t want to relinquish all those individual physical volumes for an electronic reader. But, that said, I had to give up hundreds of books when I moved back to L.A., because there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17669,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/17669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}