{"id":1384,"date":"2006-06-29T13:49:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T18:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2006-06-29T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T19:17:16","slug":"new-books-on-my-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/new-books-on-my-shelf\/","title":{"rendered":"New Books on My Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1573229326\/\">good<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=twDVs4UIU_kC&#038;dq=middlesex+&#038;pg=PA3&#038;ots=MWsSDaZU3Y&#038;sig=zg_X9A6RvghZpFEQeJ3CCuFCNNY&#038;prev=http:\/\/www.google.com\/search%3Fq%3Dmiddlesex%2B%26start%3D0%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=print&#038;ct=result&#038;cd=1\">literary<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374299625\">novels<\/a> up til lately. Now I&#8217;ve picked up the first two <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Read_or_Die\">&#8220;Read Or Die&#8221;<\/a> manga and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vernor_Vinge\">Vernor Vinge<\/a>&#8216;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfreviews.net\/rainbows_end.html\">&#8220;Rainbows End.&#8221;<\/a> Any manga that has as its hero, a librarian with special powers over paper is fine by me. And Vinge&#8217;s new book, dedicated to Wikipedia, Google and eBay is described, in part, this way on the flap:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Robert becomes more deeply involved in the conspiracy, he is shocked to learn if a radical change planned for the <a href=\"http:\/\/jetsetmodern.com\/geisel.htm\">UCSD Geisel Library<\/a>; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading good literary novels up til lately. Now I&#8217;ve picked up the first two &#8220;Read Or Die&#8221; manga and Vernor Vinge&#8216;s new &#8220;Rainbows End.&#8221; Any manga that has as its hero, a librarian with special powers over paper is fine by me. And Vinge&#8217;s new book, dedicated to Wikipedia, Google and eBay is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-information-commons","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}