{"id":1247,"date":"2020-08-21T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2020-08-21T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:02:43","slug":"more-ways-to-access-great-books-during-the-age-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=1247","title":{"rendered":"More ways to access great books during the age of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned of more great ways to access books these days, and a wonderful way to have books arrive in your mailbox! (and support the Long Island Post Office)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paperbackbookswap.com\">Paperback Book Swap <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s easy: List books you&#8217;d like to swap with other club members.<\/li>\n<li>Once a book is requested, mail it to the club member.<\/li>\n<li>In return, you may choose from <b><span id=\"site_wide_total_books_HP\">1,206,450<\/span><\/b> available books!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>&#8211; You pay postage for the books you send out; the books you receive come to you postage-paid.<br \/>\n&#8211; Books you request are yours to keep, or swap again!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And it&#8217;s not just paperbacks &#8211; it includes hardbacks, DVDs, etc.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Another fun one is\u00a0<a title=\"The 1 Book Subscription\" href=\"https:\/\/page1books.com\/products\/the-1-subscription\"><strong>The Page 1 Book Subscription<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a\u00a0<strong>personalized\u00a0service that hand-selects books<\/strong>\u00a0for you based on your preferences and our knowledge. You receive a new book every month. This bookstore, out of Evanston, Illinois, has a fun website, regardless of whether or not you subscribe to the service. Sounds like the perfect gift to me!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In any case, no matter how you receive your books, happy reading!<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/W-L-house-desk-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1248 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/W-L-house-desk-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned of more great ways to access books these days, and a wonderful way to have books arrive in your mailbox! (and support the Long Island Post Office) Paperback Book Swap Here&#8217;s how it works: It&#8217;s easy: List books you&#8217;d like to swap with other club members. Once a book is requested, mail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=1247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More ways to access great books during the age of COVID-19<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[526,524,525,109],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books-by-mail","tag-page-1-book-subcription","tag-paperback-swap","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}