{"id":11885,"date":"2019-09-28T17:33:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T16:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11885"},"modified":"2019-10-02T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T17:53:07","slug":"daily_1732_-_boxes_boxes_everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/09\/28\/daily_1732_-_boxes_boxes_everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1732 &#8211; boxes, boxes everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1732_boxes.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nWe packed away most of our books when we moved around the rooms and refinished the floors this summer. Now we&#8217;re bringing them out again. And also boxes and more boxes of more books that have been in the basement for about ten years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/books_and_the_end_of_the_world\/\">since we last went through a similar exercise<\/a>. In total I counted 47 boxes of books.<\/p>\n<p>At that time I thought we gave away a lot of books. But we still chose to keep many that we valued and liked but didn&#8217;t actively read or use. Dictionaries, reference works, coffee table books, books we had read and didn&#8217;t plan to read again soon. <\/p>\n<p>During these past ten years, many of those books have been made entirely obsolete by the internet. Short of an apocalypse that permanently takes down the whole internet, I cannot imagine a situation where I would go to a physical dictionary to look up the meaning of a word, or an art lexicon to look up a term. If I want to get a quick biography of a composer, I use Wikipedia and not a book. If I want to see an example of Monet&#8217;s work, I find it on the internet. If I want to better understand a mathematical formula, I google for a graphical explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these books we will cull and try to give away. But I suspect they may end up in the trash instead. Who in this day and age would be interested in buying them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We packed away most of our books when we moved around the rooms and refinished the floors this summer. Now we&#8217;re bringing them out again. And also boxes and more boxes of more books that have been in the basement for about ten years, since we last went through a similar exercise. In total I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11887,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions\/11887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}