{"id":1742,"date":"2014-02-08T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T17:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:19:41","slug":"wiry-limbs-paper-backs-terry-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2014\/02\/08\/wiry-limbs-paper-backs-terry-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiry Limbs, Paper Backs &#8212; Terry Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/terryborder.com\/wiry-limbs-paper-backs\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1743\" alt=\"rosemarysbaby\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rosemarysbaby.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/rosemarysbaby.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/rosemarysbaby-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/rosemarysbaby-624x499.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Terry Border (&#8220;humorist, photographer, earthling&#8221;) takes old paperback books and turns them into anthropomorphic representations of the stories in the books. This is more of a book shenanigan than a library shenanigan, but you know we don&#8217;t stand on ceremony here at Library Shenanigans. I particularly enjoyed seeing the very paperback editions I read, the ones that seem <em>right<\/em>, for several books &#8212; it was like seeing old friends. Are there books you prefer to read in particular editions? I&#8217;ve heard that as soon as you have two editions of the same title in your house, you are not just a reader but a collector. By that definition I think most readers are probably collectors.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/anthropomorphized-paperbacks-act-out-the-stories-betwee-1518667487\">io9<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Border (&#8220;humorist, photographer, earthling&#8221;) takes old paperback books and turns them into anthropomorphic representations of the stories in the books. This is more of a book shenanigan than a library shenanigan, but you know we don&#8217;t stand on ceremony here at Library Shenanigans. I particularly enjoyed seeing the very paperback editions I read, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-s6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}