{"id":943,"date":"2016-12-11T20:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T20:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/?p=943"},"modified":"2016-12-11T20:02:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T20:02:34","slug":"you-can-now-download-over-300000-books-from-the-nypl-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/2016\/12\/11\/you-can-now-download-over-300000-books-from-the-nypl-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now download over 300,000 books from the NYPL for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s good news for all the e-bookworms out there.\u00a0The New York Public Library released an app today that allows anyone with a library card (and an iOS or Android phone) to &#8220;borrow&#8221; any of the 300,000 e-books in the collection.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called SimplyE and will allow you to read books on your phone, but beware, there might be a wait list for some popular titles, including the <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> series. (Check out the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> books, quick!) The online collection will continue to grow, and there are Kindle and web browser versions in development. But, for now, take a break from Pokemon Go and read to your digital heart&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/blog\/you-can-now-download-over-300-000-books-from-the-nypl-for-free-071216<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s good news for all the e-bookworms out there.\u00a0The New York Public Library released an app today that allows anyone with a library card (and an iOS or Android phone) to &#8220;borrow&#8221; any of the 300,000 e-books in the collection. It&#8217;s called SimplyE and will allow you to read books on your phone, but beware, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erpings-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/erping999\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}