The Reading Experience

I have now managed to transport the contents of The Reading Experience from Typepad to Word Press. However, as in some episodes of Star Trek in which the transporter malfunctions, the blog has rematerialized in a somewhat scrambled form: I have not been able to reproduce the features of the Typepad version exactly, and thus have altered the blog’s organizing principle accordingly. Most of the posts I wanted to preserve (there were many with stale links or ephemeral content that I discarded) and the reviews (numerous of which first appeared in other venues) and longer essays have been arranged on pages to which I have linked on the sidebars. These pages present the posts that seem to me to still have resonance and/or relevance, or that I just want to preserve.

I must say I do not find Word Press to be nearly as intuitive and user-friendly as Typepad. (I sampled the AI Editor, but, like all other iterations of AI I have experienced, it is a disaster–AI is quite literally destroying civilization).Typepad made formatting and posting simple and easy, while Word Press seems to make them as cumbersome and confusing as possible–so cumbersome that I am now not at all sure when, or even if, I will continue posting on this blog. Perhaps I will get used to the needlessly byzantine processes here, but it could be that, at least for me, the era of blogging is finally over. Alas: Why is it we can never have nice things?