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I like e-books. I’ve been buying more e-books than physical books, lately. Not that I have anything against physical books — quite the contrary: I love physical books. But in a one-bedroom apartment, there’s not a lot of room for physical books. (Which is why I tend to give books away.)<\/p>\n
E-books are a great way to save space if you don’t have it. But they can’t do everything.<\/p>\n
A friend recently loaned me Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions<\/a><\/em>. Like Danielewski’s first book, House of Leaves<\/a><\/em>, Only Revolutions<\/em> relies heavily on the formatting of the book. (We’ll see if I get through Only Revolutions<\/em>…formatting like this<\/a> in\u00a0House of Leaves<\/em> annoyed me, and I set it aside.)<\/p>\n More than formatting that would be tough to pull off in an e-book right now, one of the best things about physical books is the personal library.<\/p>\n Flavorwire<\/a> recently had a peek inside the libraries of famous writers<\/a>. I love how each writer’s personality is reflected in their libraries.<\/p>\n As much as I love e-books, it’s weird to think there may come a day when the famous writers of the future all hold up the same reading device as others when asked to show off their libraries.<\/p>\n (It’s one of the reasons I think the physical books will always be around.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I like e-books. I’ve been buying more e-books than physical books, lately. Not that I have anything against physical books — quite the contrary: I love physical books. But in a one-bedroom apartment, there’s not a lot of room for physical books. (Which is why I tend to give books away.) E-books are a great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Behold, the Library!<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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