{"id":2030,"date":"2012-03-25T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2013-12-09T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:26:14","slug":"books-were-the-latest-thing-once-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/03\/25\/books-were-the-latest-thing-once-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Books were the latest thing once, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2031\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2031\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/03\/25\/books-were-the-latest-thing-once-too\/pipeandbook\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2031\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2031\" title=\"pipeandbook\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/pipeandbook-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/pipeandbook-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/pipeandbook.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A long-time Lake Placid landmark...closed.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kindle or paperback? Electronic devices selling like crazy; bookstores<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mjs538\/portraits-of-closed-bookstores\"> closing<\/a> all over the country. What about libraries? Many are adopting electronic book loaning systems.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this YouTube piece that&#8217;s been making the email rounds lately:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pQHX-SjgQvQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pQHX-SjgQvQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2032\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/03\/25\/books-were-the-latest-thing-once-too\/bookshop\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2032\" title=\"bookshop\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/bookshop-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/bookshop-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/bookshop.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m a book person. Electronic readers are fine for travel, but give me a solid object with pages I can feel and turn, dog-ear or leak ketchup on.\u00a0 Some say independent bookstores may see a resurgence as the chain books stores close. Want to refurbish this one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindle or paperback? Electronic devices selling like crazy; bookstores closing all over the country. What [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13969,13970,1],"tags":[52,6247,6248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7886,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/7886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}