{"id":1302,"date":"2013-07-31T22:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T03:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2014-01-23T20:54:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T01:54:13","slug":"fahrenheit-451-or-what-do-i-do-with-these-things-you-call-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Fahrenheit 451 or What Do I Do With These Things You Call “Books?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I have been getting rid of books I don’t need. So far, I have donated about 8 boxes full to the local thrift shop<\/a>. I set aside 2 boxes more for my friend’s son, who likes science fiction books.<\/p>\n

My main targets for removal are old law books, old computer books, and out-of-copyright literary works. The law\/computer books just aren’t current anymore, so other than as decorations or ballast, they don’t have much value. I’m hoping maybe decorators can use the law books, or someone might want the computer books for ballast.<\/p>\n

The literary works I’m trying to give to people who can use them, but even that is difficult. With Project Gutenberg<\/a>, I can download Mark Twain’s books whenever I feel like it, so having a paper copy doesn’t make any sense. But I know someone out there might want one. Someone like my mom, who looks at computers the same way you or I might look at a live snake.<\/p>\n

I like books. They’re comforting. But I have too many, so the ones that don’t make the cut are going out the door.<\/p>\n

O’Reilly<\/a> has a good program going on. Register your O’Reilly books with the site, and you can get DRM-free e-book versions for $5 each. I spent a good two hours registering books, and I’ll probably start buying the e-book versions soon. I’ll probably get rid of some of the older paper copies either way. They just take up too much space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems like everyone is getting rid of paper copies of books these days, and I’m joining the herd. I’ve donated 8 boxes of old books so far, and I probably have another 8 or so I can get rid of. Companies like O’Reilly that let you get DRM-free e-books make the transition a lot smoother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[655,120],"tags":[23,542],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-technology","tag-books","tag-shopping","category-655-id","category-120-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}