{"id":843,"date":"2003-01-06T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2003-01-07T03:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/06\/so-many-books-so-little-time\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:26:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:26:47","slug":"so-many-books-so-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/06\/so-many-books-so-little-time\/","title":{"rendered":"So many books, so little time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a fortuitous bit of serendipity, I just re-discovered a website I&#8217;d found a few months ago, but forgotten to bookmark &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/allconsuming.net\/\" title=\"All Consuming\">All Consuming<\/a>, which scans recently updated weblogs for Amazon book links, and uses that data to track what books are currently popular in the weblog world. Nifty stuff to explore!<\/p>\n<p>Amusingly enough, there&#8217;s a feature in the top right that lists the first line of a book for you to attempt to guess the source, which reminded me of a bookstore up on Broadway on Capitol Hill that does the same with a readerboard on the sidewalk. As it turns out, that very bookstore is where All Consuming&#8217;s webmaster <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allconsuming.net\/news\/000026.html#000026\" title=\"First Line Trivia\">got the idea<\/a>! Small world, I tell ya.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, though, I&#8217;ve <em>never<\/em> run across a first line up at the bookstore that I knew. Hm. Guess I just haven&#8217;t read enough yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a fortuitous bit of serendipity, I just re-discovered a website I&#8217;d found a few months ago, but forgotten to bookmark &mdash; All Consuming, which scans recently updated weblogs for Amazon book links, and uses that data to track what books are currently popular in the weblog world. Nifty stuff to explore!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2028],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}