{"id":11925,"date":"2019-10-12T19:24:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T18:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11925"},"modified":"2019-10-19T19:33:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T18:33:59","slug":"daily_1744_-_boxes_of_books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/10\/12\/daily_1744_-_boxes_of_books\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1744 &#8211; boxes of books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1744_boxes.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nA trip to Myrorna, with 14 boxes of books. Then another trip to Science fiction antikvariatet with 3 more.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the equivalent of about 850 pocket books. (I know this because the SF bookshop counted the contents of the boxes I gave to them, and gave me a gift card in return.) Assuming each cone cost about 80 kr, that would be 68 000 kr worth of books.<\/p>\n<p>In a way that sounds like a terrible waste. Those books face a very uncertain future, and I&#8217;m guessing that a good chunk of what we gave to Myrorna will later end up being thrown away. The man at the SF bookshop told me that there&#8217;s a guy at Myrorna whose only job is to throw away books. The mere thought is depressing.<\/p>\n<p>But each of those books has been worth the money at some point, and we&#8217;ve enjoyed reading them. So they have absolutely been worth the money. This is no more a waste than having paid for cinema tickets, which, after all, we also use once and then throw away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to Myrorna, with 14 boxes of books. Then another trip to Science fiction antikvariatet with 3 more. That&#8217;s the equivalent of about 850 pocket books. (I know this because the SF bookshop counted the contents of the boxes I gave to them, and gave me a gift card in return.) Assuming each cone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925","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=11925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11926,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925\/revisions\/11926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}