{"id":433,"date":"2007-12-11T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/an-e-book-from-blog-archives\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T20:59:05","slug":"an-e-book-from-blog-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/outreach\/blogging\/an-e-book-from-blog-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"An e-book from blog archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/buenos-aires-ebook.jpg\" alt=\"buenos aires e-book\" class=\"right\" width=\"200\" height=\"285\"\/>Jeff Barry has completed an interesting project of culling his blog archives to produce <a href=\"http:\/\/baires.elsur.org\/archives\/free-e-book-on-buenos-aires\/\" title=\"free buenos aires e-book\" target=\"_blank\">a free e-book, called <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/baires.elsur.org\/archives\/free-e-book-on-buenos-aires\/\" title=\"free buenos aires e-book\" target=\"_blank\">Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance<\/a>. <\/em>He explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whenever I come across a new blog I read the latest postings and, if I like those, I add the site to my news reader. I always intend to go back and browse the archived postings but I rarely do so. Figuring that a lot of visitors to my site also never make it too far into the archives, I decided to pull together a selection of postings from my archives and create a free e-book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a handsome book in a narrow vertical format (a format often used in travel publishing). The Bodoni face seems a good choice for the subject. My only regret is that there are not more images, which would surely bring value and add appeal, considering the subject.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/buenos-aires-ebook-spread.jpg\" alt=\"buenos aires e-book, a spread\" height=\"333\" width=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The immediacy of blogging may cause us to forget that the process is also a way of preserving content and building on it. I think this project is an excellent example of utilizing and repurposing the results of sustained, focused blogging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Barry has completed an interesting project of culling his blog archives to produce a free e-book, called Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance. He explains: Whenever I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2,35,15,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}