{"id":2575,"date":"2009-05-29T01:48:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T05:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:27:00","slug":"aside-damn-thats-a-big-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/aside-damn-thats-a-big-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside: Damn that&#8217;s a big book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has been known to comment on her preference for the mass market paperback over the hardcover book, on the basis that it&#8217;s easier to read without tiring yourself out. As a collector, I do tend to prefer the hardback for books that I want to keep in the collection, but I certainly know what she&#8217;s talking about&#8211;reading Stephenson&#8217;s Baroque Cycle could give a guy tennis elbow. One hesitates to wonder what her reaction would be to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agathachristie.com\/home-uk\/agatha-christie-breaks-a-third-world-record\/\">the new limited edition of Agatha Christie&#8217;s Complete Miss Marple<\/a>. (I love that it comes with a carrying case.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">My wife has been known to comment on her preference for the mass market paperback over the hardcover book, on the basis that it&#8217;s easier to read without tiring yourself out. As a collector, I do tend to prefer the hardback for books that I want to keep in the collection, but I certainly know what she&#8217;s talking about&#8211;reading Stephenson&#8217;s&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/aside-damn-thats-a-big-book\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[331,8],"tags":[458,394],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","category-books","tag-books","tag-ergonomics","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-Fx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}