Sentences with phrase «bigger library of books»

It would be a great way to keep a bigger library of books for the long long winter ahead.

Not exact matches

Maya Angelou and the entire Little People, Big Dreams series of books by Isabel Sanchez Vegara — Another library find, we all adore these biographical but accessible books about strong and influential women.

Joseph Smith was a snake oil salesmen in my books, besides I'm in the big leagues (Catholic) don't play with the minor league stuff and trust me I've been to almost every religion over my life searching for answers, I have a library of Bibles, Reference Books from all denominations and they all are the same, no one has answers just more questbooks, besides I'm in the big leagues (Catholic) don't play with the minor league stuff and trust me I've been to almost every religion over my life searching for answers, I have a library of Bibles, Reference Books from all denominations and they all are the same, no one has answers just more questBooks from all denominations and they all are the same, no one has answers just more questions.

Having to go the the library to look up phone numbers (remember all those big phone books for each city taking over a whole section of the library) and then making one long distance call after the other to find out rules and regulations for shipping plants, seems so time consuming today.

As I mentioned in Asha and my recent episode on media and entertainment favorites, I love getting big stacks of books at the library, particularly because a book needs to hook me within the first few pages or I give up on it (meaning, I tend to have a lot of false starts with books).

Don't forget to check your local library or garage sales for free or almost - free books before you go spending big bucks on something baby is probably going to bite a chunk out of before the end of year one.

With recycling books from their school library tucked under their arms, David Erlandson and Dan Clark stood up before the school board members of District 75 last week and presented them with a petition and a long list of big, careful signatures written on school notebook paper.

We got lots of picture books from the library about having a new baby and being a big sister that we would read before bedtime in the months leading up to that baby being born.

Like us, I'm sure you have a big collection of children's books from your teaching days... but the kids always love to find something new at the library!

Another is a traveling library with a big box of books parents can borrow.

Look for big brother / big sister stories in the library or bookstore, or consider a keepsake book to let your older child keep track of the new baby's growth.

So we have a lot of programs with a lot of materials too, so most libraries try to have of course board books which are big thing for kids.

For her display in the research library, she also assembled newspaper clippings, magazine covers and copies of his three books, including the audio version of his autobiography, «Big Russ and Me.»

Nice looking recipe, But I can't say «how nice or funny of you to rip off a page from a magazine»... Because I'm reminded of how a classmate rips off a page from a library book and I told her she shouldn't do that and she looks at me as if I'm the biggest idiot in the world.

The big ones are what the book is actually about, why its success has become a negative for the author, and what leads him to flee from the world, traveling west across the country, while burning copies of his own books in stores and libraries along the way.

It is a big week for school libraries with the announcement of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Shortlist last Friday.

My post was about the high prices libraries pay for ebooks from the «Big 6» publishers and the difficulties libraries have getting books from most of those publishers.

To add some bigger - picture perspective, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster have yet to offer libraries their books in the ebook format at all, and other publishers are continuing the longstanding policy of allowing libraries to purchase ebooks in perpetuity.

«Libraries are standing there with fistfuls of cash in their hands and saying to the big publishers, «We want to buy your ebooks,» and the publishers are saying no or they're charging way too much for their books.

Boopsie works with some of the biggest names in ebook distribution to libraries, including ProQuest, EBSCO, Baker and Taylor, Recorded Books, Overdrive, and 3M Cloud Library.

One of the big trends in 2014 was new libraries forgoing books altogether and embracing digital 100 %.

The big aspect of this new library system is that patrons can read the books online via their internet browser.

One of the big bright spots of digital books this year was the massive role libraries have played.

Essentially, the leadership finally expressed that it was fed up with the current upheaval in public library ebook lending, with different members of the Big Six publishing houses setting their own rules — from no lending of our new titles, to a book can only be borrowed a specific number of times, to no lending of any of our titles at all — it was chaos for the libraries and disappointment for their patrons.

This practice of windowing has attracted strong criticism from librarians culminating in the national lobby group taking out a full page advert in Sweden's biggest national newspaper slamming the practice, and criticising publishers for mercantile behaviour and failing to see libraries as strategic partners in reader and audience development for their books.

Anyway regardless of your thoughts on libraries, indie bookshops or even big bookshops, I hope this helps explain to trad and self - pubbers alike why they may not see their book on our shelves, ever.

Because Ingram distributes to all of the major players (online and physical stores, libraries, gift shops, Big Box chains, Apple, and many more around the globe), you have access to an incredible amount of opportunities to sell your book.

Yes, an avid reader and the reason she loves her Kindle are exactly the 3 reasons you give, Anne: - big font - light - instant purchase when a book is finished without the hassle of going to a bookstore or a lending library (she has a hard time moving around — her brain is just fine, the body, well, so - so...)

Since ants are a big part of this book, there should be good sales potential in elementary schools and libraries, many of which have ant farms, especially if you publish it in a paperback edition as well as hardcover.

With only one of the «Big 5» publishers currently signed on to both Scribd and Oyster, book availability seems like one area that libraries lead on, at least for now.

In the past, I've always recommended the Kindle over other e-ink readers, and buying Kindle books instead of iBooks on iOS, because Amazon had the biggest library of relevant titles and strongest content ecosystem.

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.

The ongoing drama over the Big Six vs. Amazon has left a lot of libraries and their patrons waiting on the sidelines of the debate in confusion, waiting patiently to see when they will simply be allowed to borrow a book.

When the Big Six publishers pulled their ebooks from Amazon's lending program, Amazon fired back with a maneuver of its own, namely, to invite the self - published authors to put their books in the lending library on the condition that it be available nowhere else, even as a free blog post.

Once borrowed from the library or school, children can read eBooks including the Big Nate and Friends series, Harry Potter series, Number the Stars, The Book Thief, The Chronicles of Narnia series, Wonder, Mary Poppins and thousands of others.»

Back in April Simon & Schuster announced that it will donate a free electronic copy of Academy Award — winning producer Brian Grazer's new book, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, to school and public libraries for every ebook or hardcover book sold at retail, up to 5,000 copies.

Yet, the lending library launched last year without any of the big six publishers in the U.S.. Most of the books available to lend are self - published books.

By reviewing from the big five a reader can request and receive a limited number of books, review books already owned, and check out library books all without feeling swamped under a to be read pile that is much too large for any reader.

So start small, build up to bigger reviewers, then run an ad in a journal that gets sent to libraries featuring your books and your excellent, credible reviews (even so, personally, I probably wouldn't do that for most of my books... simply because the readers who buy cheap books on Kindle aren't the same buyers who go to libraries to read books).

I've got an iPad full of a gazillion - affordably - priced - ebooks I purchased and haven't read yet; a house full of hundreds of print books I've yet to read; an ongoing addiction to big, old, dusty secondhand bookstores; and I belong to two big local library system with excellent print and ebook selections / services.

If you wish to be traditionally published by a Big Six publisher (who put out the kinds of books you see in airports, libraries, and those thingies that sell books... right, book stores), you must have an agent.

Gradually solving some of the problems I had; a big one was being able to use my library to borrow books - hurray for solving that goodereader!

You can add or remove books from your library or shutoff the auto scan for those of you with big collections.

Kindle library lending was the biggest story of the year and people can now borrow library books and have them delivered to their Kindle e-Reader or Tablet.

The biggest change that the upgrade brings was the support of multitasking when you download more then one book to your library.

A big congratulations to the 10 winners of our recent Library Love Fest contest, who'll each be receiving one book or audio book for themselves and five for their local libraries:

If you've been following the E-Content blog, you know that we've been keeping track of the Big Five publishers (Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Hachette Book Group) and the terms they offer to libraries for their ebooks.

The big one is being able to borrow books from the library right off of the device via the wireless connection.

Also wondering if the B&T solution does anything to address the primar issue for library e-books (no books from most of the Big Six pubs).

It's time for the library to have a big enough of a book budget to win them and their parents over with the right digital and paper titles.