{"id":2115,"date":"2010-10-26T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T13:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2010-10-26T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T13:31:07","slug":"novelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2010\/10\/26\/novelty\/","title":{"rendered":"novelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"lisanthus on the windowsill by pilgrimgirl, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pilgrimgirl\/2766646918\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3082\/2766646918_af720faa20.jpg\" alt=\"lisanthus on the windowsill\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last year in October <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pilgrimgirl\/4030344665\/in\/photostream\/\">I dyed some sections of my hair neon purple<\/a>.\u00a0 There was no particular reason for me to have purple hair, it just seemed like something worth trying.\u00a0 I was curious if it wold affect the way people interacted with me and\/or the way I felt about myself.\u00a0 As far as I can tell, it didn&#8217;t really have much of an impact other than being novel.<\/p>\n<p>Much of my life lately seems to hinge on that novelty factor.\u00a0 There&#8217;s such a rush from trying new things, or experimenting with new ways of doing things.<\/p>\n<p>One thing, however, that I thought would always be a constant in my life, is my love for books.\u00a0 But ever since I started reading e-books, my love for actual books with paper pages has waned.\u00a0 I like being able to browse through a text quickly via keyword searching.\u00a0 I like being able to jump from TOC to chapter with the click of a link.\u00a0 And having all of my devices synced to that exact page in the novel that I&#8217;m reading&#8230;has stimulated my love of reading all over again.\u00a0 Instead of needing to carry a book with me to fill in the gaps of my day, I can simply turn on the kindle app on my phone, and be back where I stopped reading the night before.<\/p>\n<p>What about you, are you reading ebooks?\u00a0 If so, how are you liking them?\u00a0 Are they changing your reading habits?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year in October I dyed some sections of my hair neon purple.\u00a0 There was no particular reason for me to have purple hair, it just seemed like something worth trying.\u00a0 I was curious if it wold affect the way people interacted with me and\/or the way I felt about myself.\u00a0 As far as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-body","category-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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