{"id":30,"date":"2008-06-11T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-06-20T05:47:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T09:47:18","slug":"the-imprint-of-books-one-life-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/the-imprint-of-books-one-life-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Imprint of Books, One Life at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Editorial Ass blog<\/a> is running a fascinating series of posts. Collectively referred to as “Celebrate Reading Month<\/a>,” each post in the series is written by a guest blogger, each describing a book which had an impact on the blogger’s life, understanding of books, reading habits — whatever.<\/p>\n

MoonRat, who runs the blog, has made it convenient to see all the current posts at once, using a “celebrate reading<\/a>” tag.<\/p>\n

Of many interesting things about the series, there’s this, completely coincidental: it acts as a counterweight to those who might despair at the state of reading. (Including many of those reading and participating in Nathan Bransford’s current<\/a> discussions<\/a>, and subsequent comments, about e-readers, e-books, e-publishing, e-authoring and -agenting.)<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> The sensory experience of reading — feel, smell, and so on — is one thing which people say holds them back from considering an e-reader. You might be interested in seeing this gallery<\/a> of Kindle users’ photos of their new toys, many in quite inventive (and no doubt sensorily satisfying) covers.<\/p>\n

Update 2:<\/strong> My contribution<\/a> to Moonrat’s “Celebrate Reading Extravaganza” is up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Editorial Ass blog is running a fascinating series of posts. Collectively referred to as “Celebrate Reading Month,” each post in the series is written by a guest blogger, each describing a book which had an impact on the blogger’s life, understanding of books, reading habits — whatever. MoonRat, who runs the blog, has made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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}},"categories":[38,17,36,42,1],"tags":[75,4137,103,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-30","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-backwards","7":"category-04_technology","8":"category-reading","9":"category-ebooks-etc","10":"category-uncategorized","11":"tag-editorial-ass","12":"tag-reading","13":"tag-celebrate-reading","14":"tag-nathan-bransford","15":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}