{"id":37218,"date":"2011-02-04T13:18:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=9689"},"modified":"2011-02-10T01:17:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T09:17:07","slug":"razib-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/04\/razib-on-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Razib on Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/01\/open-thread-january-1st-2011\/#comment-56394\">New Year&#8217;s Open Thread<\/a> D. Chamberlin <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/01\/open-thread-january-1st-2011\/#comment-56394\">suggested<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think your many book reviews ought to be more accessible. They were for me an excellent guide as to which books I should buy as well as educational in and of themselves. You have a long list of books you reccommend over on Gene Expression Classic but clicking on them just links you to the book seller. Just as a suggestion if you could link to your previous book reviews that are buried in years gone by I think many people would appreciate them as much as I did&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have taken that to heart, and set up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razib.com\/books\/\">a new website<\/a> where I am spending a little time each day adding links to a few book reviews which are &#8220;buried&#8221; in the posts of my various weblogs over the past 8 years. I&#8217;ve also added links &amp; quick comments to books which I have never reviewed, but are part of my &#8220;cognitive furniture,&#8221; such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razib.com\/books\/2011\/02\/04\/introduction-to-quantitative-genetics-genetics-and-analysis-of-quantitative-traits\/\">Introduction to Quantitative Genetics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The basic format is this: title, cover photo + link to Amazon, and then link to review or comment. That&#8217;s it. It&#8217;s not a &#8220;blog,&#8221; but rather a site devoted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the New Year&#8217;s Open Thread D. Chamberlin suggested:<br \/>\nI think your many book reviews ought to be more accessible. They were for me an excellent guide as to which books I should buy as well as educational in and of themselves. You have a long lis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,119,1059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-books","category-razib-on-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37218"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37511,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37218\/revisions\/37511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}