{"id":1396,"date":"2018-04-05T18:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2018-04-05T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:34:07","slug":"review-the-revenge-of-analog-real-things-and-why-they-matter-by-david-sax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-revenge-of-analog-real-things-and-why-they-matter-by-david-sax\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Revenge of Analog &#8211; Real Things and Why They Matter, by David Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I bought this book in a small, independent bookshop in San Francisco, where I spotted it while browsing a few days earlier, and not on Amazon.  I read it as a paperback, not on my Kindle.  And I guess that&#8217;s part of the point author David Sax was making: we still use analog for a lot of things and there&#8217;s evidence that we increasingly do so.  <\/p>\n<p>The sales of vinyl records are booming, physical notebooks (Moleskines are the best known) are selling like hotcakes, and bookshops (as well as physical books) are starting to make a comeback.  Sax writes well, and travelled far and wide to meet the people who manufacture vinyl records, paper notebooks, even luxury analog watches made in the heart of the post-industrial wasteland of Detroit.  <\/p>\n<p>I was inspired to go out and buy yet another paper notebook (my favourite is Leuchtturm1917 rather than Moleskine), to get out a board game we bought last summer (Pandemic), and to buy my latest novel (The Boy on the Bridge) from a local bookshop rather than online.  <\/p>\n<p>Sax isn&#8217;t arguing that we all need to do this.  He&#8217;s saying it&#8217;s happening anyway, and he wants to explain why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I bought this book in a small, independent bookshop in San Francisco, where I spotted it while browsing a few days earlier, and not on Amazon. I read it as a paperback,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}