{"id":3074,"date":"2021-08-20T01:37:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2021-08-20T01:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T01:37:52","slug":"books-and-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2021\/08\/20\/books-and-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Books and values"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it is safe, we hope to take one of those river cruises through part of Europe in a few months. My wife found a list of book recommendations for those taking this trip and I thought I should read one. The book I ordered from Amazon arrived today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/book1.jpg?resize=522%2C765&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3075\" width=\"522\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/book1.jpg?w=648&amp;ssl=1 648w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/book1.jpg?resize=205%2C300&amp;ssl=1 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew the book was not a recent publication and I did think the price for a hardcover being half the price of the ebook version was kind of weird, but I did not expect a used book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book was in good shape and not marked up so I am not really bothered by receiving a book someone else has read. Here is what does bother me (see following image).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/book2.jpg?resize=640%2C191&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/book2.jpg?w=648&amp;ssl=1 648w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/book2.jpg?resize=300%2C89&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inside the front cover I found this stamp. My daugher has one of those front lawn micro libraries that she purchases books for. I have at least one other relative that does the same thing. Of course, I don&#8217;t know how this used book came to be sold through Amazon, but the idea that someone may have taken a free book and then sold it through Amazon I find very disturbing. Those folks who take books for this purpose are similar to those folks who roam the aisles of second-hand stores seeing if there is a profit to be made in reselling goods given for free to such outlets bothers me a great deal. I don&#8217;t give used stuff to such outlets for this purpose and hope that those who need inexpensive resources can make use of inexpensive appliances or a free or cheap book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it is safe, we hope to take one of those river cruises through part of Europe in a few months. My wife found a list of book recommendations for those taking this trip and I thought I should read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2021\/08\/20\/books-and-values\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}