{"id":4743,"date":"2011-07-21T23:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T06:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2011-07-21T23:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T06:53:52","slug":"goodbye-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4743","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Borders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should have known when I signed up to be a &#8220;special customer&#8221; of Borders for $20 that I&#8217;d never make that money back. In fact, while I love books, I&#8217;m getting to be a big Kindle fan. I read a lot of books on one of my two Kindles (I really should sell the old one on eBay) or on my iPhone. The thing is, I always have my iPhone and so I always have my books. I&#8217;m reading a real book right now and it&#8217;s kind of cramping my hands up. I feel like a cranky whiner, but I&#8217;m actually getting used to non-books.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part is that I don&#8217;t buy as many books as I used to, and I find it easier to get books on Amazon than going down to the bookstore. First they closed the downtown Borders, and now they&#8217;re closing them all. We have one of the best bookstores on the planet in Powell&#8217;s books, but I hardly go there either. And my biggest problem with books is what to do with them after I read them. I have stacks and stacks of books that I&#8217;ve read and re-read and they take up a lot of space. I guess I could try to sell them, or just give them to Goodwill like everything else. Now if I could only convince my buddy MattyG to drive his brother&#8217;s truck over here, I could make a HUGE trip to Goodwill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have known when I signed up to be a &#8220;special customer&#8221; of Borders for $20 that I&#8217;d never make that money back. In fact, while I love books, I&#8217;m getting to be a big Kindle fan. I read a lot of books on one of my two Kindles (I really should sell the old one on eBay) or on my iPhone. The thing is, I always have my iPhone and so I always have my books. I&#8217;m reading a real book right now and it&#8217;s kind of cramping my hands up. I feel like a cranky whiner, but I&#8217;m actually getting used to non-books. The worst part is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodbye Borders!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4744,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions\/4744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}