{"id":2830,"date":"2010-07-17T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T08:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2010\/07\/17\/borrow-a-book-online\/"},"modified":"2010-07-17T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T08:35:22","slug":"borrow-a-book-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"borrow-a-book-online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See, I knew this had to happen eventually.  If you feel like reading a book, but don&#8217;t want to go to your local library to check it out, you now have another option, <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2010-07-14-InternetArchive14_st_N.htm%22\">the virtual kind<\/a>.  And it&#8217;s fully accessible:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those who are blind, dyslexic or have diseases like multiple sclerosis and have difficulty turning book pages, reading the latest best seller just got easier.<\/p>\n<p>Brewster Kahle, a digital librarian and founder of a virtual library called the Internet Archive, has launched a worldwide campaign to double the number of books available for print-disabled people<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I looked at <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/openlibrary.org\/%22\">Open Library<\/a> the other day and the site is easy to navigate and self-explanatory.  It also seems that I don&#8217;t have to be a member of my local library in order to use the service, which I wouldn&#8217;t have minded either way.  <\/p>\n<p>I do however feel that I now need an ereader so I can join the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See, I knew this had to happen eventually. If you feel like reading a book, but don&#8217;t want to go to your local library to check it out, you now have another option, the virtual kind. And it&#8217;s fully accessible: For those who are blind, dyslexic or have diseases like multiple sclerosis and have difficulty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}