{"id":8276,"date":"2010-10-23T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T16:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2010-10-23T11:03:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T16:03:36","slug":"james-lileks-heretic-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/23\/james-lileks-heretic-again\/","title":{"rendered":"James Lileks: Heretic, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his Bleat yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/lileks.com\/bleat\/?p=8234\" target=\"_blank\">he said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Me, I\u2019d like to get rid of every single book I have, except for twenty or so. I would like them all scanned and digitized and accessible via iPad, thank you. Yes, yes, the argument about the love of books; I love them too. The love of being surrounded by your library? Yes yes. But. I would be more likely to dip into something if it was incorporeal. On the shelf, they all seem to reproach me: you don\u2019t remember me, do you? All that time we spent together. But I remember the good times; isn\u2019t that enough? Really: if I could, I\u2019d reduce everything to a big desk in a white room with a shelf holding just a few books. The obligations of possessions, the accretion of things: it\u2019s enough to make a Buddhist of me. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/16\/james-lileks-heretic\/\" target=\"_blank\">He said something similar in September of last year<\/a>, so he&#8217;s obviously not <em>that<\/em> serious about it.  But if he is, well, the more for me.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, what kind of compulsive book acquirer am I these days?  I spent several hours last night volunteering at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book fair and did not buy a single book.  <em>Because I&#8217;m waiting for bag day.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his Bleat yesterday, he said: Me, I\u2019d like to get rid of every single book I have, except for twenty or so. I would like them all scanned and digitized and accessible via iPad, thank you. Yes, yes, the argument about the love of books; I love them too. The love of being surrounded [&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-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","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=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}