{"id":1000,"date":"2011-02-20T23:09:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T04:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2011-02-20T23:17:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T04:17:44","slug":"1000-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/20\/1000-books\/","title":{"rendered":"1,000 books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve apparently been buying too many books lately because I just reached 1,000 for my library.  A complete works set of Jane Austen hardcovers rounded it out.  I know the number because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">librarything<\/a>, one of my favorite websites.  (Incidentally, I just got runner up in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/blogs\/librarything\/2011\/02\/bookpile-contest-winners-picked\/\">bookpile contest<\/a> there that I entered over <a href=\"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/more-bookpiles\/\">two years ago<\/a>.)  Why do I need more books?  I don&#8217;t, particularly.  But you can get almost any book used on amazon for $4 or less, and in good condition too.  I got a still plastic-wrapped, signed, numbered, first edition hardcover for $4.  This is generally why I try not to go into bookstores, and especially used bookstores or library sales.  It&#8217;s so easy to walk away from those with oh, say twenty or more books per visit.  At this point, I literally cannot cram one more single book into my bookshelves and I don&#8217;t have room for more shelves so I suppose I will have to stop.  And all this at a time when everyone I know is getting a Kindle or Nook.  While I think those devices have their place (good for travel, ability to search, nice to have everything in one minimalist place), I don&#8217;t think I will ever stop buying books.  I don&#8217;t just love reading, I love <em>books<\/em>.  I like having a physical book in my hands, I like collecting them, I think they&#8217;re pretty, and I especially like old books.  Besides the fact that I think ebooks cost way too much, you can&#8217;t buy them used, and there are limited lending capabilities, you just can&#8217;t get the same feeling with a Kindle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve apparently been buying too many books lately because I just reached 1,000 for my library. A complete works set of Jane Austen hardcovers rounded it out. I know the number because of librarything, one of my favorite websites. (Incidentally, I just got runner up in a bookpile contest there that I entered over two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}