Sentences with phrase «library than any other book»

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Summer is when you march yourself down to the local library, come out with more books than you can carry, and then beat the pants off all the other kids enrolled in the summer reading program by downing every Ramona book within a 50 mile radius like so many shots of vodka.

While it's a little more expensive than other learning toys, and you will probably want to expand its library beyond the included sampler books, it is certainly going to engage your child even when they begin to grow out of the toddler stage.

(6) supply, including on loan by libraries, of books (including brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter, children's picture, drawing or colouring books, music printed or in manuscript form, maps and hydrographic or similar charts), newspapers and periodicals, other than material wholly or predominantly devoted to advertising;

In 2015, more than 7 million books and other reading materials were borrowed through the 37 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries.

It is in the middle of nowhere, there are more banned books in town than actual books to check out at the library, the high school history teacher teaches The War of Northern Aggression, and there are more churches than any other buildings.

These reviews counted the number of library books and degrees held by teachers, among other inputs, rather than outputs like student test scores.

At my library we are just getting started with ebooks — we get more paper books than ebooks, but our other resources (periodicals) are probably mostly online these days.

There's a cost for them to ingest, manage and lend even free books (Adobe charges libraries for each lend, even of free books), so they're unlikely to want free books that aren't going to get read (there's a need in the marketplace for a free open source DRM checkout system that libraries can use, but that's a matter for another time, and some entrepreneur other than yours truly).

I like the Nook better than the Kindle (my deciding reason being that the Nook works with the library ebooks and Kindle doesn't), ergo that is what I bought, and all books should be available for Nook (and Sony and Kobo and the oodles of other readers half the world's never heard of) just the same as for Kindle.

It's too bad that the recent meeting between the leaders of the American Library Association and top executives of Penguin Books as well as other Big 6 publishers did not «help» Penguin to reach a conclusion more favorable to libraries than this complete withdrawal.

Kindles: Amazon has a larger catalog of modern books because amazon has been in the e-book market longer than anyone other.They have 2,00,000 Kindle exclusive e-books with many from the famous authors who publish directly via amazon.There are not many choices to buy e-books for the kindle from other stores or free book sites.The bought books are stored in the cloud.Just keep the local copies of the books.You can also lend a book to a friend once for 14 days.Amazon also has kindle lending library which is currently available only to amazon prime subscribers.Thus via this service borrow books and read without buying.You can also read e-books loaned from the public libraries.Getting the loaded books onto the device is simpler on kindle unlike the nook.The books can easily be downloaded wirelessly via whisper sync service (an AT&T 3G powered connection).

One of the great elements of this device, other than purchasing content directly from the Sony Store via WIFI, is the ability to download free books from Google and borrow books directly from the library.

Requiring purchases shoots readers who go to libraries or borrow books from friends of who buy books... somewhere OTHER than Amazon.

These high schoolers are more likely than other age groups to use the library, including for research and book - borrowing,» said Kathryn Zickuhr of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, a co-author of the report.

With many users and politicians remaining unaware of the many ways a library contributes to the public other than just dusty, molded print books, it's easy to understand why some people don't feel the call to support libraries.

Maybe publishes ought to rethink their distribution methods so book buyers are encouraged to buy rather than obtain books from other sources (BitTorrent, libraries, etc.).

Overdrive has just reported that 49 library systems in the U.S. and two other countries have set a new record for lending more than one million digital books in 2016.

Once at the library or on the library website, parents are more likely than other adults to do a notable number of activities, including browse shelves, borrow printed books, attend classes and events for children, borrow DVDs and CDs, use computers and the internet, and borrow e-books.

If a book is available in digital format from a library, it is available somewhere in digital format other than Select.

It would be great to be able to take this any other way than an attack on Amazon, and the end result is the shunning of Kindle customers who wish to borrow library books.

I love Baen books and it is so much easier dealing with them than the other publishers but a lot of what I read is put out by the Big 6 — I wish the publisher wouldn't treat libraries as if they were some kind of pariah..

Today, Central Library and 18 other neighborhood libraries make up a library system that offers more than two million books and other library materials.

Among U.S. libraries serving fewer than 1 million residents, Multnomah County Library ranks No. 2 in annual circulation of books and other materials, according to the Public Library Association's 2017 Statistical Report (which reflects data from 2016).

Other than that, and the efficiency of being able to carry «hundreds of books» on you all the time — none of the ads for these readers can supply any credible reason why someone would want to walk around with an entire library in their pocket — I just can't see why these things are popular.

And via improved WiFi availability and otherwise, we could make digital library books more accessible than now for students and others in high - poverty neighborhoods and remote rural areas — «book deserts,» as some call them.

Although I've never heard of this book, I see that OCLC / WorldCat lists the AudioBook of it as being held by more libraries (1,946) worldwide than any other sound recording.

School libraries provide more than books, computers and other technology, databases of accurate information, e-books, plus fun and educational activities.

If you live here, unless you're really into classic works out of copyright, or you do all of your reading through your library's OverDrive account, you're probably in the Amazon ecosystem — and you can't legally read Amazon books on anything other than a Kindle.

Soon after, she won a copy of A Wrinkle in Time through her public library's summer reading program for reading more books in one summer than all the other students combined.

Buying books and going to the library are more than twice as popular as any other cultural activity, including buying music, visiting museums, or going to concerts or movies.

by First Mate Keira Did you know there's more you can do with a library card other than check books and movies out?

Since most libraries can not afford to purchase all books in each format some users will have to read books on a medium other than their preferred one.

They also buy more books and media each year than non-library users, including books and other content that they initially discovered at their library.

Six months later here is what we have: Look For The Hook (my wife's self help book) and Treachery In Turtle Bay (my mystery) are available on Amazon, On Barnes & Noble internet site, In Barnes & Noble Stores (via Ingram \ Lightning Source POD through CreateSpace In hundreds of other Book Stores (again via Ingram \ Lightning Source POD through CreateSpace) In Libraries via Baker & Taylor by way of CreateSpace Direct POD In a Global E-Store provided by CreateSpace (where by the way the royalty is higher than any other channel except direct sales) And, if you love the book and want a signed copy, it is available directly from the Author Page on the specific book's internet site www.lookforthehook.com, www.treacheryinturtlebay.cbook) and Treachery In Turtle Bay (my mystery) are available on Amazon, On Barnes & Noble internet site, In Barnes & Noble Stores (via Ingram \ Lightning Source POD through CreateSpace In hundreds of other Book Stores (again via Ingram \ Lightning Source POD through CreateSpace) In Libraries via Baker & Taylor by way of CreateSpace Direct POD In a Global E-Store provided by CreateSpace (where by the way the royalty is higher than any other channel except direct sales) And, if you love the book and want a signed copy, it is available directly from the Author Page on the specific book's internet site www.lookforthehook.com, www.treacheryinturtlebay.cBook Stores (again via Ingram \ Lightning Source POD through CreateSpace) In Libraries via Baker & Taylor by way of CreateSpace Direct POD In a Global E-Store provided by CreateSpace (where by the way the royalty is higher than any other channel except direct sales) And, if you love the book and want a signed copy, it is available directly from the Author Page on the specific book's internet site www.lookforthehook.com, www.treacheryinturtlebay.cbook and want a signed copy, it is available directly from the Author Page on the specific book's internet site www.lookforthehook.com, www.treacheryinturtlebay.cbook's internet site www.lookforthehook.com, www.treacheryinturtlebay.com).

What are the weaknesses — the lack of ePub support and the lack of library books, the lack of touch, the lack of color, doing nothing other than reading.

The print book readers who have college degrees or live in households earning more than $ 75,000 were also more likely than others to have borrowed a printed book from a library and they went to the library more times than other book readers to borrow a book.

Additionally, 16 - 17 year - olds (as well as 30 - 49 year - olds) are more likely than others to have used the library to borrow books in the past year.

As numbers come out and we learn at least enough about the big success stories to determine how little of the cash pool was available for other authors to divvy up, we should be able to get a clearer picture of how well somebody can expect to do through this program, After all, even if you were only making $ 1 per book sold on each of your hypothetical 30 annual sales through Barnes & Noble, that's better than getting nothing at all from a lending library for Kindle owners.

«Reading Now» will open the book you were last reading, unfortunately if you're reading more than one book at a time you have to hunt up the other books in the library listing (no mean feat if you have a few hundred books).

Can libraries exist digitally, or be constituted of things other than books?

Not only is this the most comics ever offered by Marvel or any comics company at this price point, but the Marvel Unlimited library offers more digital comics than any other major comic book company.

• Dual cameras: 3 - megapixel rear - facing camera and video capture and a VGA front - facing camera • Google Play with more than 600,000 apps, millions of songs and books and thousands of movies • Samsung Media Hub, a full library of video and literary content powered by some of the biggest names in entertainment • IR Blaster emulating an infrared remote control • Samsung's exclusive AllShare service to wirelessly share stored music, pictures and user - generated content to other DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) certified home • AllShare Play allows users to wirelessly connect to their PC, tablet or television to immediately share files, stream music, user - generated videos, photos and other DRM - free content to AllShare - enabled devices using Wi - Fi • 3.5 mm stereo headset jack • Bluetooth 4.0

Other than Bitcoin's code libraries and other versions of the Bitcoin code itself, the most popular Bitcoin projects include Zeronet, the Brave Browser, a Bittorrent / Github fusion called Gittorrent, Andreas Antonopoulos» book entitled «Mastering Bitcoin», Bitpay's operating system called Bitcore, a trading bot called Gekko, the Electrum wallet, an Arbitrage trading bot, and the classic CPUMiner softOther than Bitcoin's code libraries and other versions of the Bitcoin code itself, the most popular Bitcoin projects include Zeronet, the Brave Browser, a Bittorrent / Github fusion called Gittorrent, Andreas Antonopoulos» book entitled «Mastering Bitcoin», Bitpay's operating system called Bitcore, a trading bot called Gekko, the Electrum wallet, an Arbitrage trading bot, and the classic CPUMiner softother versions of the Bitcoin code itself, the most popular Bitcoin projects include Zeronet, the Brave Browser, a Bittorrent / Github fusion called Gittorrent, Andreas Antonopoulos» book entitled «Mastering Bitcoin», Bitpay's operating system called Bitcore, a trading bot called Gekko, the Electrum wallet, an Arbitrage trading bot, and the classic CPUMiner software.

Other than books I'm used to handling video tapes, computer files, cassettes and CDs in the library.

What library material other than books are you comfortable in handling?

A living room with gaudy wallpaper and two large armchairs could be any old English living room, but add a few potion bottles, library of old books and a magnifying glass and you could be in no other than 221B Baker Street.