{"id":79,"date":"2013-02-20T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2013-03-20T11:16:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:16:03","slug":"archives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

The archives from the old Stump the Bookseller are still available on our website www.loganberrybooks.com\/stump.html<\/a>.\u00a0 There are still some unsolved queries, so feel free to peruse and email us at stump@logan.com<\/a> with any suggested solutions.<\/p>\n

The History<\/strong><\/p>\n

The history of this page is a funny and accidental thing.\u00a0 As a bookseller, I often receive requests for long-lost childhood memories of books, and when I started this website back in 1995, I started receiving some cloudy email requests as well.\u00a0 I didn’t think much of it, but one which I “solved” caused me such amusement that I saved the message and later created the I Remember That Book!<\/b> page.<\/p>\n

I added other requests and quotes to that page, but I noticed two distinct kinds of requests:<\/b> those for titles remembered, and those for which only a murky plot was remembered.\u00a0 The bookselling detective work for these requests is different, so I started the Stump the Bookseller<\/b> page.<\/p>\n

The Fame<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to National Public Radio, our five minutes of fame was broadcast on January 25, 2003<\/a>.\u00a0 Traffic on the site quadrupled in the weeks to follow.\u00a0 Thank you, Andy Bowers and the NPR team for the attention.<\/p>\n

New Format<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our old manual methods of posting book stumpers grew wearisome, and the size of the site posed difficulties with certain web browsers.\u00a0 In February 2013, we opened a new blog format for the forum which makes commenting easier and faster, and which has a pretty awesome search capability.\u00a0 We still use a variation of keycodes for super-quick searching, and for easy identification of queries.\u00a0 There’s no longer a need for archiving, but you can focus your search by choosing Solved or Unsolved in the Categories column.<\/p>\n

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The archives from the old Stump the Bookseller are still available on our website www.loganberrybooks.com\/stump.html.\u00a0 There are still some unsolved queries, so feel free to peruse and email us at stump@logan.com with any suggested solutions. The History The history of this page is a funny and accidental thing.\u00a0 As a bookseller, I often receive requests […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}