{"id":2478,"date":"2013-01-14T09:11:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2013-01-14T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:59:48","slug":"ghosts-in-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts in the library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bookless.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2479\" alt=\"bookless\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bookless.jpg?resize=500%2C245&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bookless.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bookless.jpg?resize=300%2C147&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an artist&#8217;s rendering of what <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5975505\">promises<\/a> to be the first bookless public library in the country. Slated to open later this year in Bexar County in Texas, it&#8217;s the brainchild of a county judge and book collector named Nelson Wolff, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local_news\/article\/Bexar-set-to-turn-the-page-on-idea-of-books-in-4184940.php#photo-4012897\">says<\/a> he had a vision of an all-digital library while reading Walter Isaacson&#8217;s biography of Steve Jobs. The building is being designed to resemble an Apple Store, aseptic and brightly lit, with long ranks of iMacs and an info-barista manning the reference desk-cum-genius bar. The patrons, as the artist&#8217;s rendering indicates, will be wraiths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s an artist&#8217;s rendering of what promises to be the first bookless public library in the country. Slated to open later this year in Bexar County in Texas, it&#8217;s the brainchild of a county judge and book collector named Nelson Wolff, who says he had a vision of an all-digital library while reading Walter Isaacson&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}