{"id":3726,"date":"2012-11-19T14:26:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:21:44","slug":"introducing-the-biblio-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2012\/11\/19\/introducing-the-biblio-mat\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing &#8230; the Biblio-Mat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/introducing-the-biblio-mat\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1441\" title=\"biblio-mat1-205x300\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/biblio-mat1-205x300.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"205\" \/><\/a>The Biblio-Mat is a one-of-a-kind (so far!) vending machine filled with antiquarian books. It&#8217;s at The Monkey&#8217;s Paw, a Toronto bookshop. Customers pay $2 to try their luck. If the results in the video are typical, I would guess customers will be very satisfied, though perhaps not enough to seek to &#8220;collect all 112 million titles.&#8221; Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/11\/18\/bibliomat-a-vending-machine-f.html\">BoingBoing<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/introducing-the-biblio-mat\/\"><em>Paris Review<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biblio-Mat is a one-of-a-kind (so far!) vending machine filled with antiquarian books. It&#8217;s at The Monkey&#8217;s Paw, a Toronto bookshop. Customers pay $2 to try their luck. If the results in the video are typical, I would guess customers will be very satisfied, though perhaps not enough to seek to &#8220;collect all 112 million [&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-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Y6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","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=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}