{"id":3616,"date":"2010-09-03T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T17:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2010-09-03T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T17:57:20","slug":"the-skinny-on-sheepskin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/03\/the-skinny-on-sheepskin.html","title":{"rendered":"The Skinny on Sheepskin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired is running a story that links the size of e-readers to sheep.\u00a0 I think it is a stretch (and they admit it, as well), but the story does have a terrific guide to why books have traditionally been their various sizes&#8230; and it does have a lot to do with sheep:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2010\/09\/hidden-link-between-e-readers-and-sheep\/all\/1\"><strong>The Hidden Link between E-Readers and Sheep<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wired article was inspired by a post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/gotmedieval.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/why-are-books-so-big-google-penance.html\">Got Medieval<\/a> blog.\u00a0 I like the look and feel of vellum, although it is a bit squeem-inducing to think about what it is made from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired is running a story that links the size of e-readers to sheep.\u00a0 I think it is a stretch (and they admit it, as well), but the story does have a terrific guide to why books have traditionally been their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/03\/the-skinny-on-sheepskin.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2927,2937,2962],"tags":[5340,4486,5353,5318,5317,4378,5316,4154],"class_list":["post-3616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-definitions","category-history","category-publishing","tag-books","tag-e-readers","tag-history","tag-paper","tag-sheep","tag-technology","tag-vellum","tag-wired"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Wk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}