{"id":70,"date":"2008-03-01T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=70"},"modified":"2008-03-01T07:35:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T14:35:28","slug":"dirda-on-books-once-it-was-exciting-to-go-out-booking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/01\/dirda-on-books-once-it-was-exciting-to-go-out-booking\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirda On Books: &#8216;Once It Was Exciting to Go Out Booking&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>snipped from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/\" title=\"click to visit ShelfAwareness.com\" target=\"_blank\">ShelfAwareness<\/a> newsletter <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once I could have sold my books to any number of local used bookshops for a reasonable sum&#8211;now nobody much wants anything, aside from rarities&#8211;because everything is available online. I myself understand the attractiveness of being able to buy everything you want, but I don&#8217;t like the whole outlook. It&#8217;s like a billionaire buying a beautiful woman any time he wants one to sleep with&#8211;where&#8217;s the romance, where&#8217;s the excitement, the heartache, the attendant glories and sorrows of romance? Once it was exciting to go out &#8216;booking&#8217;&#8211;and there were scores of places to go. But now, now. To make everything freely available makes everything seem that much less interesting and desirable. But I begin to rant.&#8221;&#8211;Michael Dirda in a live, online discussion at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2008\/02\/22\/DI2008022202461.html\" title=\"click to view Michael Dirda's blog\" target=\"_blank\">Washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/photo\/2007\/09\/07\/PH2007090702183.gif\" alt=\"Michael Dirda on Books at WashingPost.com\" border=\"0\" height=\"45\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<table style=\"clear: both; float: right\" id=\"content_column_table\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"238\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"10\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>snipped from ShelfAwareness newsletter &#8220;Once I could have sold my books to any number of local used bookshops for a reasonable sum&#8211;now nobody much wants anything, aside from rarities&#8211;because everything is available online. I myself understand the attractiveness of being able to buy everything you want, but I don&#8217;t like the whole outlook. It&#8217;s like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}