Sentences with phrase «as unread books»

My body was as small and short - legged as a wild Mongolian pony's, my hands and feet as thick as unread books.

Not exact matches

Most book manuscripts end up unwanted and unread on publishers» and agents» slush piles, and the majority of those that do make it into print sell fewer than 1,000 copies... It's not even as if writing is that glamorous.

You can delay losing the work on your DVR, just as you can keep an unread book for weeks from the library, but you aren't buying those TV shows.

My shelves, floors, attic and Kindle are loaded with literally hundreds of books: books bought on a whim; books from charity shops; books from as - yet - unread authors; hell, even books I pre-ordered months in advance and then failed to actually read.

The pile of unread books we have on our bedside tables is often referred to as a graveyard of good intentions.

I wanted to switch about 100 books to a second account for the old one due to the fact that every time I synced they tried to transfer to both, which left me with 67 pages of books listed as either unread, reading at 1 % or coming up asking me if I want to download them.

I currently have an ebook library of about 1,500 books and all are marked as read / unread so, again, it's easy to find books I've already purchased but haven't yet read.

It's not as if I don't have anything to read; there's a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I've been meaning to reread.

Also, since I started reading more print books again, I have a new appreciation for the feeling of holding a book in your hands, the tactile sensation of turning the pages, of seeing your progression visually as the pages read become more plentiful and the pages yet unread decrease in number.

I experienced this recently when seeking out books by as - yet - unread - by - me (no - longer - living) authors Dunnett and Heyer.

We (and other booksellers) have been fighting with Barnes and Noble and Amazon to require these sellers to list the books as «used but excellent» or «used but unread» or something, and that only original publishers or their authorized agents can sell books as «new» but so far no luck... There's nothing we can do about it, we've checked.

I just keep a selection of unread (or as - yet - unreviewed) books on my Paperwhite; the rest are stored in my Kindle library at Amazon, and I pull them onto my device as needed.

For some unknown reason pocket articles are warning me about 7 unread «books» by certain author who I do not know because I didn't pay attention to a name of the author of article... I have no clue why the pocket articles now referred as books with the new software, it is confusing occasionally.

So as much as I am a fan of eBooks I am in a bit of a «waiting» mode now and I don't buy much (which is not a big deal since I have a few hundred unread books).

My old scren had all my authors on screen on shelves as such, i had a section saying unread new books which i just clicked on and it had all my new books ni had purchased but not yet read so i can just click on.

The activity option allows me to keep track of my reading in a number of ways such as percentage read, total books read and unread, how much I read at a sitting, as well as the total number of hours read to date.

It is not acceptable to merely hand over your self - published book as the odds are that it will not be read, it will land on a pile of other unread books.