{"id":77,"date":"2016-09-16T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T14:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc\/mblc_blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2016-09-20T16:10:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T16:10:59","slug":"happy-read-an-ebook-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/2016\/09\/16\/happy-read-an-ebook-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Read an eBook Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know today, September 16th, is <a href=\"http:\/\/readanebookday.com\/\">Read an eBook Day<\/a>? I didn&#8217;t either, but I just so happened to download the electronic version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/24819449-the-witches\">Stacy Schiff&#8217;s <em>The Witches: Salem, 1692<\/em><\/a> this morning, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overdrive.com\/\">OverDrive<\/a> let me know what&#8217;s up.<\/p>\n<p>I live in Somerville and <em>The Witches<\/em> is our city&#8217;s community reads title for 2016. Last night, I checked out the 400+ page hardcover tome and immediately dreaded lugging it around town. Luckily, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mln.lib.ma.us\/\">Minuteman Library Network<\/a>&rsquo;s OverDrive collection came to the rescue &#8211; I now have the ultra-portable ebook version on my phone, too. Woohoo!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s even a hashtag, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/eBookLove?src=hash\">#eBookLove<\/a>, for y&#8217;all to wax poetic and join in the celebration. What are <em>you<\/em> e-reading right now? Let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know today, September 16th, is Read an eBook Day? I didn&#8217;t either, but I just so happened to download the electronic version of Stacy Schiff&#8217;s The Witches: Salem, 1692 this morning, and OverDrive let me know what&#8217;s up. I live in Somerville and The Witches is our city&#8217;s community reads title for 2016. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[68,63,62,3,64,65,69,67,66],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotion","category-resource-sharing","tag-community-reads","tag-ebooklove","tag-ebooks","tag-libraries","tag-overdrive","tag-read-an-ebook-day","tag-somerville","tag-stacy-schiff","tag-the-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}