{"id":154,"date":"2010-10-11T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2015-04-05T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:38:27","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I know how long it’s been.<\/p>\n

I’ve spent a good portion of the day entering books into LibraryThing<\/a>. It’s a good, free to cheap way to keep your personal library organized. I have trouble keeping track sometimes, particularly with business books (not the ones I’ve read, but the ones in the queue) and knitting books (did I buy it or just want<\/i> to buy it?), so I decided I needed to get organized. (If you saw how books are scattered on shelves throughout out house, you’d understand how I could lose track.) And as someone who’s stood in a bookstore wondering if I’ve read a particular cozy<\/a>, it seemed like a good\u2014nay, great<\/i>\u2014idea to be able to access the info from my phone’s web browser. I know I’ve read all the Southern Sisters mysteries<\/a> because there aren’t many of them, but I sometimes have trouble keeping track of those Chocoholic<\/a> and Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom<\/a> ones.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day today, I know two things for sure:<\/p>\n

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  1. I seriously need some paying work.<\/li>\n
  2. I have way<\/b> too many lace knitting books. Frankly, I’ve learned that my attention span is not really going to permit me to knit anything recognizable as lace, so it’s not something I pursue. Why do I have all these books?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Yes, I know how long it’s been. I’ve spent a good portion of the day entering books into LibraryThing. It’s a good, free to cheap way to keep your personal library organized. I have trouble keeping track sometimes, particularly with business books (not the ones I’ve read, but the ones in the queue) and knitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}