{"id":15880,"date":"2025-02-23T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T14:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15880"},"modified":"2025-02-23T14:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T14:38:24","slug":"blogathon-23-25-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15880","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 23\/25: Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My world, in the last few years, has become dominated by books. Paperbacks and eBooks in about equal quantities. But when I make this sweeping statement I&#8217;m not considering dogs, obviously. Because 4x spaniels dominate my life more than books. It&#8217;s just that books have assumed a much larger and more significant part of my life, of late, than books previously occupied. Good, I&#8217;m glad I cleared that up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m currently reading a lot of books in genres I wouldn&#8217;t normally hesitate to pick up (SciFi mostly), but I&#8217;m also spreading my net wider. In the last fortnight I&#8217;ve dipped into a couple of Fantasy, a pair of Biogs, and a Historical or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m picking most of these up on Kindle which is more portable and keeps me out of the robbing clutches of Waterstones but, simultaneously, pushes me further into the arms of sycophantic American hard-right billionaire. Gah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m looking for alternate platforms to go shopping on and have discovered a couple for paperbacks, but eBooks alternatives seem to be evading me at the moment. I&#8217;m going to pop into <a href=\"https:\/\/fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Five Leaves bookshop<\/a> in a few days to see if they have any suggestions for an independent provider of eBooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My world, in the last few years, has become dominated by books. Paperbacks and eBooks in about equal quantities. But when I make this sweeping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15881,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions\/15881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}