{"id":1036,"date":"2009-02-10T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:22:35","slug":"the-book-is-dead-long-live-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-book-is-dead-long-live-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The book is dead. Long live the book."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16970 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090210_pinetrees.png\" alt=\"Clipart of very tall pine trees\" width=\"400\" height=\"392\">Had a very instructive morning, dear boys and girls. The power in my neighborhood went out for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The devil! you say. No, truly, it did. No lights, no TV (poor Dude and Dude\u2019s daily recordings), no stove (electric, ptooey), no dishwasher, no washing machine or dryer (not like I personally use those things), no hot water (after what\u2019s left is gone), no Internet (gasp!), and, my personal favorite, no data because my laptop went on battery immediately, but I keep everything on my grab\u2019n\u2019run emergency preparedness external hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Pffft.<\/p>\n<p>So what did I do? Went hunting for my eBookWise. That\u2019s right. I\u2019d had it charging and it was all fresh and ready to go, but what would happen after my charge ran out in 12 to 15 hours (depending on what light level I had it set on)? I would not be able to read, that\u2019s what would happen. And I would thus be forced back to dead-tree books.<\/p>\n<p>And writing long-hand on lined paper. (Er, well, I do that anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>Take away from this what you will, but while I am still a pusher of electronically transmitted stories, nothing but nothing will take the place of dead-tree books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a very instructive morning, dear boys and girls. The power in my neighborhood went out for a while. The devil! you say. No, truly, it did. No lights, no TV (poor Dude and Dude\u2019s daily recordings), no stove (electric, ptooey), no dishwasher, no washing machine or dryer (not like I personally use those things), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,583],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks","category-print-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16972,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/16972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}