{"id":322,"date":"2013-01-10T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=322"},"modified":"2013-01-10T12:40:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T20:40:25","slug":"weeding-books-how-i-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Weeding books: how I do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What I\u2019m keeping: two kinds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. Books I haven\u2019t read yet and still want to read.<\/p>\n<p>2. Books I\u2019ve read and loved so much that I actually open them up periodically and read over my favorite parts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What I\u2019m not keeping: everything else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. Nay to books that have been sitting on my shelf without a look for well over twenty years. because think about it &#8212; twenty years without being cracked? What does that mean? It means it\u2019s not exactly begging for a re-read. I\u2019m sure not going to read \u201cDarkness at Noon\u201d again. Why would I? It\u2019s seared into my brain. I\u2019ve found plenty of other books in that category on my shelf, and out they go.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0Away with books that are old, yellowed, brittle and musty, as paperbacks over ten years old tend to be. Into the recycling bin they go. If I love a book that much, I\u2019ll buy a better copy in hardback, because it\u2019s no pleasure to read a book in that condition.<\/p>\n<p>3. Another capital crime is if the print\u2019s so small that only an insect can read it.<\/p>\n<p>4. I\u2019m discarding with great glee anything written in tedious, academic English. I hated it in college, and I hate it now. The only excuse for writing that way is the juvenile hope that if no one can understand you, everyone will think you\u2019re smarter than they are. (Fortunately not all my college materials were written in this way and I\u2019m keeping some gems that still speak to me.)<\/p>\n<p>So there you are. Go wild. Start throwing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I\u2019m keeping: two kinds. 1. Books I haven\u2019t read yet and still want to read. 2. Books I\u2019ve read and loved so much that I actually open them up periodically and read over my favorite parts. What I\u2019m not keeping: everything else. 1. Nay to books that have been sitting on my shelf without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,39],"tags":[68,77,78,76,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}