Sentences with phrase «important than reading a book»

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So sometimes it's more important to read a book to your toddler while your baby naps in your arms than it is to do your hair.

I am not including books in this post, though, as always, reading and spending time with my little one is far more important than any material toy!

And more important than me staying physically fit, is for them to see me take care of myself in all I do and incorporate them into it; so as they get older it's no different than brushing their teeth, reading books and taking a bath.

Student choice of what to read, rather than yours, is important — in a recent Australian study (Scholastic, 2016) nine out of 10 children said their favourite books were the ones they picked out themselves, and the same proportion said they were more likely to finish a book they'd picked out themselves.

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

Your sales pitch to people who are likely to buy and read your book might be more than persuasive enough, but a book review can be just as important a promotional tool to get your book off of the racks and into a buyer's hands.

It seems the readers have decided that who published a book is less important than reading a good story.

I've got a lot on my plate, but none of it is more important than my marriage.FOOTNOTES: • No hipsters or metrosexuals were harmed in the making of this book • This story takes place at the beginning of Prime Minister (Frisky Beavers # 1), but can be read as a standalone silver fox story • This book includes a significant excerpt from Prime Minister.

She doesn't deserve books any more than any other individual in her institution — I mention the doctorate to remind you, if you're unconvinced, that reading is important enough to people that they'll spend time, money, and years for it, and arrange their life around the study of it.

One important note: you are only paid for a book «sale» through the Kindle Unlimited program when the reader reads more than 10 % of the book.

That was precisely my experience: The viewing angle was better than on other tablets, an important point given that the company's NookKids encourages the idea of using the device to read picture books to children.

More important than price - cuts and as important as new features is the battle to keep the definition of eReaders pure and focused on reading books.

Besides, I don't know about you but I would rather read books where we see the strength of the human spirit, where freedom and exploration and exploding spaceships are more important than pushing some social agenda.

They seem to believe that casual readers (users who don't think a dedicated reading device makes sense) form a Long Tail that will end up being more important than eReader owners and physical book buyers.

«We hope to capture a set of readers who perhaps don't read on paper, as well as a new generation who will grow up reading and writing on computer screens in school and will have different reading habits,» said Maru de Montserrat, agent at International Editors Co. and president of ADAL, «It's important to meet that demand, rather than waiting for readers to take matters into their own hands and create a black market of scanned books.»

When it comes to their own children, mothers are more likely than fathers to say a major reason why libraries are important is because libraries help children develop a love of reading and books (90 % vs. 77 %).

Personally, my books are even more important to me than my music collection; I don't want to lose the ability to read them due to format change, and I would resent having to pay for the whole collection all over again.

This is even more important than getting your book proof - read.

They're buying a Kindle so they're buying a Kindle book, but the format is less important than the device or the ecosystem that they're reading them in.

Millennials are more likely than older adults to have used a library website in the past year and just as likely to have read a book, but they are among the least likely to say that libraries are important: just 19 % say their library's closing would have a major impact on them.

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