{"id":10,"date":"2009-10-20T22:15:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=10"},"modified":"2009-12-24T04:36:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:36:18","slug":"new-book-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"New Book, Falling Apart&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr. FolioDeux makes money as an editor, not as a scientist, but he loves to read about science. \u00a0So, naturally, I bought him a copy (from our local independent bookstore) of The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes. \u00a0He enjoyed it so much that I decided I&#8217;d use it as my infusion reading at my last session. \u00a0I, too, was really engaged by Holmes&#8217; wonderful writing, and have continued to read in the volume (indeed, I&#8217;m sad to see the end is rapidly approaching). \u00a0HOWEVER, I&#8217;m not so happy about the fact that the book &#8212; which has been gently used! &#8212; is already falling apart. \u00a0The front cover is pulling away from the spine. \u00a0Well, we didn&#8217;t buy this as an investment, but, still, it&#8217;s sad, a lovely first edition that is going to be worthless by the time I finish reading it. I won&#8217;t even feel good about loaning it out or giving it away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is, I hope, an anomaly. \u00a0I like buying &#8220;real&#8221; books, but if they are made to decompose so quickly, I&#8217;ll soon be sticking with older books &#8212; it&#8217;s not as if there aren&#8217;t dozens of books on my &#8220;need to read this someday&#8221; list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. FolioDeux makes money as an editor, not as a scientist, but he loves to read about science. \u00a0So, naturally, I bought him a copy (from our local independent bookstore) of The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes. \u00a0He enjoyed it so much that I decided I&#8217;d use it as my infusion reading at my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}