{"id":61,"date":"2002-11-01T08:59:50","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T13:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2002-11-01T08:59:50","modified_gmt":"2002-11-01T13:59:50","slug":"clicks-and-mortar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Clicks and Mortar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Execution happens at ebb tide, when the hype waves have receded offshore. I was looking for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0198502435\/qid=1036162396\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/102-3077571-1707343?v=glance\">The Self-Made Tapestry<\/a> and found that Barnes and Noble Online now lets you search inventory of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordersstores.com\/stores\/store_pg.jsp?storeID=367\">local stores<\/a>, enables you to reserve the book online for pick-up at the store, and even tells you in what section of the store it can be found.  I wish that the local bookstores had this capability, but they don&#8217;t yet.<br \/>\nThe last feature is particularly helpful for those who prefer books that aren&#8217;t clearly in one subject area. Is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0262561271\/qid=1036162473\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/102-3077571-1707343?v=glance\"> The Computational Beauty of Nature<\/a> in Biology, Math, or Computer Science? Is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0521299551\/qid=1036162514\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/102-3077571-1707343?v=glance\">The Printing Press as an Agent of Change<\/a> in History, Sociology, or someplace else?  Much time has been spent wandering bookstore aisles in search of books without an obvious category; this is one reason that I buy a lot of books online (of course, they could always reshelve sections on Social History of Technology and Computational Biology&#8230;).<br \/>\nBy the way, they didn&#8217;t have Self-Made Tapestry, so I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0465043917\/qid=1036162343\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_1\/102-3077571-1707343?v=glance&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;n=507846\">Acquiring Genomes<\/a> instead, which is on the Lynn Margulis theory that cell organelles used to be free-swimming critters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Execution happens at ebb tide, when the hype waves have receded offshore. I was looking for The Self-Made Tapestry and found that Barnes and Noble Online now lets you search inventory of its local stores, enables you to reserve the book online for pick-up at the store, and even tells you in what section of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=61\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clicks and Mortar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}