{"id":624,"date":"2016-01-18T18:52:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T18:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/?p=624"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:08:35","slug":"the-history-and-future-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2016\/01\/18\/the-history-and-future-of-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The History and Future of the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/01\/piso-dodo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626\" alt=\"piso dodo\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/01\/piso-dodo-279x300.jpg\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/01\/piso-dodo-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/01\/piso-dodo-624x670.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/01\/piso-dodo.jpg 879w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/01\/piso-squirrel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-627\" alt=\"piso squirrel\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/01\/piso-squirrel-269x300.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/01\/piso-squirrel-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/01\/piso-squirrel-624x695.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/01\/piso-squirrel.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special Collections student assistant Anna Wermuth blogged her experience in The History and Future of the Book half block class, January 2016:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2016\/01\/06\/that-special-something\/\">That Special Something<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2016\/01\/08\/why-art-when-its-tedious\/\">Why Art (When It&#8217;s Tedious)?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/\">Under Press-ure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(The dodo and flying squirrel illustrations are from our copy of Willem Piso&#8217;s <em>De Indiae Utriusque re Naturali et Medica Libri Qvatvordecim<\/em>, published 1658. Anna refers to them in her first post, &#8220;That Special Something.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Special Collections student assistant Anna Wermuth blogged her experience in The History and Future of the Book half block class, January 2016: That Special Something Why Art (When It&#8217;s Tedious)? Under Press-ure (The dodo and flying squirrel illustrations are from our copy of Willem Piso&#8217;s De Indiae Utriusque re Naturali et Medica Libri Qvatvordecim, [&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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cc-special-collections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-a4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}