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People actually bought books when they had covers like these<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People actually bought books when they had covers like these?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[46,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-o2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1491,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/diss-tribute","url_meta":{"origin":1490,"position":0},"title":"Diss tribute","author":"Gil","date":"May 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0People actually buy books when there are so damn many?","rel":"","context":"In "Design"","block_context":{"text":"Design","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/design"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2023,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/kin-and-kindle","url_meta":{"origin":1490,"position":1},"title":"Kin and Kindle","author":"Gil","date":"April 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Once upon a time, Robin Williams said, \"Cocaine is God's way of telling you that you have too much money.\" This week I bought a Kindle. 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