{"id":1192,"date":"2012-02-21T10:02:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T09:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2012-02-21T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T09:02:50","slug":"do-you-own-an-ebook-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/do-you-own-an-ebook-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you own an ebook reader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering whether I should get a kindle for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I love books. I love touching them, I love flickering through them. When I was growing up, I would spend hours in my grandparents attic, looking at the books that were stored there, hundreds of old, dusty books.<\/p>\n<p>I think a house without books is a very sad place. When I go into a house, one of the first thing I notice is the books (if you invite me, make sure there are a few good books laying around). I like reading also.<\/p>\n<p>I remember going into the flat of a member of the Lausanne Reformed Baptist church. There were books everywhere. every wall was covered in books, there were some on the floors and on most surfaces. I think the bathroom was the only place without any books. It was wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>But books tend to take a lot of space, and I can&#8217;t get around getting rid of them. They are also very heavy when you move house. So, the question is: should I get an ebook reader (probably kindle)?<\/p>\n<p>Do you own one? If yes, what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering whether I should get a kindle for a while. I love books. I love touching them, I love flickering through them. When I was growing up, I would spend hours in my grandparents attic, looking at the books that were stored there, hundreds of old, dusty books. I think a house without &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/do-you-own-an-ebook-reader\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you own an ebook reader?&#8221;<\/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":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}