{"id":237,"date":"2014-08-23T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/23\/buying-books\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:16:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:16:57","slug":"buying-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/buying-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I went online and bought a couple of books. I occasionally buy (physical) books online simply because there is no book shop near where I live, and, of course, it is so easy. However, on those occasions when I travel to Sydney, I actually do visit book shops, because, in spite of the convenience and the ease of online book shopping, there is nothing quite like the physicality of books in a book shop. The concrete reality of the book &#8211; its weight, the texture of the paper and even its smell &#8211; is simply part of the overall experience where pages can be turned and re-turned at will, without the need for some electronic prompt.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Although we may occasionally wonder if physical books will <i>eventually<\/i> cease to exist, and although we may ask ourselves whether such a demise might take a form similar to that described by Ray Bradbury in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fahrenheit_451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fahrenheit 451<\/a><\/i> or that of a skillful battle plan put into action by a plethora of electronic devices, we do not have any answers. So, for the time being at least, find a good book, a comfortable chair, a favourite drink and enjoy!&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/19.html\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/19.html\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-WqHpjGW0q3Y\/U_gtwkFEVUI\/AAAAAAAABkc\/wVwOcy86Lxg\/s1600\/19.png\" height=\"87\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/sib.html\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/sib.html\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z21OtIBEXVE\/U_gsLGAr9PI\/AAAAAAAABkI\/ZcCjwVig0r4\/s1600\/SIB.png\" height=\"87\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I went online and bought a couple of books. I occasionally buy (physical) books online simply because there is no book shop near where I live, and, of course, it is so easy. However, on those occasions when I travel to Sydney, I actually do visit book shops, because, in spite of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/buying-books\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}