“Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”<\/p>\n
Augustine Birrell, “Book-Buying,” Obiter Dicta<\/em> (1887)<\/p>\n I have to agree with this.\u00a0 There’s something extra rewarding about discovering a long-sought-after book on the shelves of a quaint shop or even online.\u00a0 Of course, I prefer the quaint shop experience, but sadly they are becoming extinct.\u00a0 Our local used-and-rare bookshop went out of business this year after the death of the owner, and it is a great loss to our community.<\/p>\n Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.” Augustine Birrell, “Book-Buying,” Obiter Dicta (1887) I have to agree with this.\u00a0 There’s something extra rewarding about discovering a long-sought-after book on the shelves of a quaint shop or even online.\u00a0 Of course, I prefer the quaint shop experience, but sadly … 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-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}