{"id":6798,"date":"2012-03-15T01:17:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T05:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordgrrls.com\/?p=6798"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:15:56","slug":"ebooks-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/ebooks-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"eBooks Have No Feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6814\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"handascii\" src=\"http:\/\/wordgrrls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/handascii.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"296\" \/>It&#8217;s a shame they don&#8217;t still make books with hard covers, embossed titles, tissue thin pages between full colour illustrations, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fore-edge_painting\">fore-edge painting<\/a>. Those books had texture, they were touchable. New books don&#8217;t have that quality and ebooks have none at all.<\/p>\n<p>It seems we always lose something sensual in a real, physical way when we move ahead with new technology. Will everything eventually be hands-off, untouchable in the future? The less people touch things the more it becomes something unusual, scary, even taboo eventually. Think not? What about all those people who won&#8217;t wash their hands any more because they&#8217;re afraid of germs? They don&#8217;t want to touch the taps, the soap, the towel to dry your hands&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just waiting to see someone wearing latex gloves to the bookstore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/ebooks-feelings\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to eBooks Have No Feelings\"><p>It&#8217;s a shame they don&#8217;t still make books with hard covers, embossed titles, tissue thin pages between full colour illustrations, fore-edge painting. Those books had texture, they were touchable. New books don&#8217;t have that quality and ebooks have none at all. It seems we always lose something sensual in a real, physical way when we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[915],"tags":[245,1035],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75410,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions\/75410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}