{"id":63,"date":"2001-10-28T02:06:32","date_gmt":"2001-10-28T07:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2001\/10\/28\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T22:45:11","slug":"oop-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2001\/10\/28\/oop-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"OOP no more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve been doing in recent years is to replace some of the kid lit paperbacks I have that are in poor condition with hardcovers.  In conjunction, I&#8217;ve been trying to get hold of some of the books I used to get out of the library pretty often and actually add them to my own personal collection. (Recommendation of the day: The Witch Family, by Eleanor Estes.  Read it now. Just do it.)<\/p>\n<p>Some books are easier than others to get hold of, and some, when they are available, are ridiculously expensive.  That&#8217;s been my problem with this one book, The Ordinary Princess, which is one I don&#8217;t have at the moment in any form.  Every few months I&#8217;d go on a search of various sites &#8212; alibris, bn, amazon &#8212; and try to see what they were going for at the moment, since it was out of print.  The last time I searched, the cheapest I could find it was at amazon uk for about 20 pounds.  Not a price I could afford. But! Joy!  Friday I happened to check again, and amazon has it up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0670035440\/\">pre-order<\/a> for $12! in Hardcover! I&#8217;m so excited.  This recent rash of republishing is a good thing, even if a lot of the prices are outrageous.<\/p>\n<p>I think next I&#8217;m going to go after the Dorrie the witch books.  A lot of them were out of print the last time I went looking, but Harry Potter madness has seen a huge proliferation of books about witches and wizards, so maybe someone will realize and start printing them again.  And I -will- manage to find Jane of Lantern Hill for a reasonable price.  I need to poke into used bookstores more often.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve been doing in recent years is to replace some of the kid lit paperbacks I have that are in poor condition with hardcovers. In conjunction, I&#8217;ve been trying to get hold of some of the books I used to get out of the library pretty often and actually add them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}