{"id":24749,"date":"2011-10-17T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/avi-whats-the-importance-of-bookbinding-in-a\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:22:00","slug":"avi-whats-the-importance-of-bookbinding-in-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/avi-whats-the-importance-of-bookbinding-in-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24749 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/avi-whats-the-importance-of-bookbinding-in-a\/attachment\/24750\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lt8hcrSYZp1qbup7mo1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Avi<br \/>\nWhat&rsquo;s the importance of bookbinding in a digital age? <\/p>\n<p>Michael<br \/>\nMy friend who owns several bookstores often laughs at me. \u201cWe\u2019re in a dying trade,\u201d he says. Too often, I have to agree with him. But when I get sick of all the information beaming at me through the computer and over the radio and tv, a book made of paper can be just the thing. It\u2019s nice to handle something that is still unplugged. The other thing is that so much of the digital world is actually more ephemeral than the physical world. I have ten year old computer files that I can\u2019t read. How long will a Nook last? Last night I was reading a book by Ernie Pyle about the Second World War when my wife walked into the room. It dawned on me that she was in our bedroom, but I was watching our navy transports unload soldiers on the beaches of Sicily. I was plugged in but the book wasn\u2019t. Then it will go back onto the shelf until someone else picks it up\u2026ten, twenty, twelve hundred years from now. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/10\/16\/bookbinding-in-the-digital-age-an-interview-with-michael-greer.html\">Bookbinding in the Digital Age: an interview with Michael Greer \u2013 Boing Boing<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avi What&rsquo;s the importance of bookbinding in a digital age? Michael My friend who owns several bookstores often laughs at me. \u201cWe\u2019re in a dying trade,\u201d he says. Too often, I have to agree with him. But when I get sick of all the information beaming at me through the computer and over the radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6rb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24751,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24749\/revisions\/24751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}