{"id":151,"date":"2005-07-14T20:16:52","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T20:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:17:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:17:20","slug":"the-ecstasy-of-book-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/the-ecstasy-of-book-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ecstasy of Book Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Even when reading is impossible, the  presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of  more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching  towards infinity&#8230;. We cherish books: even if unread, their mere  presence exudes comfort, their ready access,<\/em> <em>assurance.<\/em> A. E. Newton<\/p>\n<p>Ah&#8230;.\u00a0 Someone who understands the Book  Acquisition Compulsion.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone happen to know the exact source of  this quote?\u00a0 (Book title, possibly even page number?)\u00a0 I&#8217;m an obsessive  documenter as well as collector.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity&#8230;. We cherish books: even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, assurance. A. E. Newton Ah&#8230;.\u00a0 Someone who understands &#8230; <a title=\"The Ecstasy of Book Acquisition\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/the-ecstasy-of-book-acquisition\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Ecstasy of Book Acquisition\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}