Sentences with phrase «libraries feature books»

Take the time to introduce yourself as a local author and discuss the book's topic with them; many libraries feature books by local authors.

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).

There is also a games area with a billiards table, and a library featuring books on the local area.

A prominent beachfront is ideal for sunbathing and snorkeling, while a serene and cool library features books, and DVDs.

Not exact matches

Barbara Higham: When I was feeding my baby at the library while choosing books with my four - year - old, a lady asked me if she could take our photograph for a local community feature about libraries.

Check your library's early reading section; it typically features a large collection of baby - pleasing titles in paperback that are easier to tote along than board books.

Start baby's library with this multi-tasker of a book featuring the one and only Minnie Mouse.

Among the features of the library include a room dedicated to historical artifacts - including some relating to the life and times of Herbert Macaulay, an innovation hub that will serve as a Coding Centre, a lounge / café area, a reading area with updated books and an e-library section, wheelchair accessible ramps and a finished courtyard area, among others.

This year's 19th annual Battle of the Books trivia event featured more than 150 local teen and preteen readers representing 14 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries.

Local teens and pre-teens are gearing up for the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library's Battle of the Books, an exciting annual reading trivia competition featuring more than 150 contestants on 23 teams representing 14 area libraries.

The 8,000 - volume library will also feature e-books and audio books, Harris said.

Oh, she also begins to fall in love (somewhat) with him (of course, only AFTER he saves her from vicious wolves and gives her a library featuring thousands of rare books).

But Mes's long - awaited book on Kaji connects directly to several titles within Arrow's library, most notably its U.K. - only Blu - ray edition of her Lady Snowblood films (1973 - 4) and their box set featuring her most iconic performance, the four - film Female Prisoner Scorpion series (1972 - 3).

WKCD has a deep commitment to school reform, especially high school, and since 2001 we have produced, often with student collaborators, a large library of books, feature stories, and publications that embrace students as knowledge creators and change makers.

Although modern, well - designed facilities do not guarantee higher student achievement, some basic features that parents can look for include a well - equipped library, a collection of age - appropriate books and periodicals in addition to textbooks in each classroom, a separate lunchroom and auditorium or large classroom for meetings and presentations, and adequate physical education facilities.

Build your classroom library or supplement your reading program with these Spanish - translated books featuring compelling TIME For Kids content.

Our authors are frequently featured guests and speakers at bookstores, libraries, book clubs, conferences, festivals and other rewarding events.

Williamson County Public Library under the direction of Dolores Greenwald decided to publish a picture book featuring popular local miniature horses, Bucky and Bonnie, to help introduce children to the library.

Writer's Craft Academy is a private membership site for aspiring authors, featuring a vast library with hours of training videos for authors; additional resources like ebooks, workbooks, and checklists; an exclusive members - only Facebook group; a monthly writer's craft book club; and weekly video conference group coaching sessions.

These can include, but are not limited to, an author panel featuring traditional, hybrid and self - published authors from the community; presentations from local indie authors about writing, marketing and more; book readings and / or signings from local authors; presentations from local industry leaders; writing workshops and informative presentations and workshops about tools available to the writing community through the library.

This morning featured a panel to discuss book banning, particularly in schools and libraries.

Libraries could do special actions where games are featured alongside other material in a franchise, such as books and cartoon series or what have you.

This feature recommends books to you based on your library collection.

The online access to Overdrive and library books is not one I have used at all, so I won't discuss it, but the Pocket is a feature I only began to explore in the last two weeks when the idea of this review took root.

The program works when a particular book isn't available with the library, they will place an order at Amazon or any other bookseller featured on Amazon and have it delivered straight to the member, free of cost.

Other features include location, mapping, and contact information for each branch, a catalog search, an ISBN barcode scanning function that enables users to scan books in retail environments to see if titles are available at their library, an events schedule that enables registration, an «ask a librarian» live chat service, a contact information form, and even a text - to - donate option.

No Shelf Required features contributions from book and library professionals and thought leaders in the United States and around the world.

The software has become very popular among book - lovers, schools, clubs and business libraries all over the world and every day we receive a dozen of new feature and support requests.

It's been super easy to set up and I love the «Add books» feature — it makes it easier to build up a library of books — your backlist — and feature that on the site.

The bookstore itself features a large selection of free books that use Google Book's large database of scanned public domain library books.

As others have pointed out, it is perhaps telling that the Amazon release refers only to Kindle customers, not patrons: the new feature will «allow Kindle customers to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 libraries» [emphasis added].

Basically, Amazon one - upped Barnes & Noble's Read In - Store feature that allows Nook customers to «read NOOK Books FREE for up to one hour per day» in any of their 700 + stores, and put the exact same feature in every Kindle customer's living room via 11,000 + public libraries, without the physical and timing limitations.

Like among the new features that are to be added include the ability to make personalized book recommendations right on the Kindle app home screen itself while also enabling the user to inform friends about any book suggestions right from book within the library itself without requiring to log out of the app.

It features a main screen with your new books listed and contains a bookshelf to show you all of the books stored in your library.

This feature, called Self - e, will offer libraries a curated list of titles that not only have some standard of quality for writing, grammar, and formatting, but will also help prevent any concerns about the content of the book, much like the stripping of titles last year from major retailers when inappropriate content made its way into the children's sections of various stores.

Some of the features of the Readmill for Android app include the ability to start and finish titles entirely in offline mode while still letting the location in the book sync through the Readmill app when wifi becomes available, the ability to important titles from the library of another reading app, and the option to start reading or simply browse with the swipe of a finger.

Sony's Readers have another feature that's not present in the Kindle: All of the devices are capable of displaying digital books that have been borrowed from thousands of public libraries that lend electronic books.

Calibre's features include: library management; format conversion (all major ebook formats); syncing to e-book reader devices; fetching news from the Web and converting it into ebook form; viewing many different e-book formats; giving you access to your book collection over the internet using just a browser.

SEATTLE - April 20, 2011 -(NASDAQ: AMZN)- Amazon today announced Kindle Library Lending, a new feature launching later this year that will allow Kindle customers to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 libraries in the United States.

Features of Kindle Cloud Reader include: - An immersive view of your entire Kindle library, with instant access to all of your books - Start reading over 950,000 Kindle books instantly within your browser - An embedded Kindle Store optimized for your web browser makes it seamless to discover new books and start reading them instantly - New Kindle Store for iPad is built from the ground up for iPad's touch interface - Your current book is automatically made available for offline use, and you can choose to save a book for reading offline at any time - Receive automatic software updates without the need to download new software - Select any book to start reading, customize the page layout to your desired font size, text color, background color, and more - View all of the notes, highlights, and bookmarks that you've made on other Kindle apps or on Kindle - Sync your last page read across your Kindle and free Kindle apps so you can always pick up where you left off

Our Pressbooks tutorial library has expanded again, this time with a new video on using the parts and chapters features to help structure your book.

Other updates included in the new software include an improved and expanded X-Ray feature for revealing plot and character details in books you're reading, more integration of Amazon's Goodreads acquisition, improved search that provides results spanning the Kindle Store, Kindle Library and Goodreads in a single page, and an «About This Book» feature that gives you basically inside jacket or library card information whenever you need it.

Along the bottom of the screen is a small toolbar with links to the most recently read book, my library, a menu of applications (arranged in the typical Android style), the Kobo online shop and Reading Life app (a social networking feature integral to the company's devices.)

Besides the 3G, one feature I loved about the Kindle Touch was how it handles library books.

Each library kit contains 50 book covers, 300 bookmarks, 50 buttons, 5 assorted VIZ Media bags, and a full - color poster featuring NARUTO, and is available for FREE to library professionals.

-- Social media pages geared toward providing readers with discounted books — Newsletters geared toward providing readers with discounted books or reviews of books at any price — Blogs that feature books from specific categories, discounted books, or book reviews — Any print publication that reviews books — Email lists that provide libraries with information about books, either with or without reviews — Distributor catalogues that provide bookstores and libraries with information about books, either with or without reviews — The algorithms that trigger «you might like» and «buyers also considered» recommendations on internet sales sites — Consumer reviews Notice the emphasis in most of these areas on reviews.

According to a statement from Amazon on the new features, this update will allow users of the Kindle app to access the read aloud over 1.8 million titles available in the Kindle Store using Apple's VoiceOver technology, navigate within their libraries or books using consistent title, menu and button names or navigate directly to a specific page within a book, read character - by - character, word - by - word, line - by - line, or continuously, as well as move forward or backward in the text, add or delete notes, bookmarks, and highlights, look up words in the dictionary and Wikipedia, and much more.

The user's online library contains not only all books bought in the txtr eBook shop but also any other books or documents the user has uploaded to the library on the web via txtr's unique upload feature.

The Resources for College Libraries, or RCL, was first developed in 2006 as a collection of titles based off the American Library Association's classic reference work, Books for College Libraries (BCL), which features over 85,000 titles across 117 subject areas.

It has undergone a face - lift offering new features, such as an expanded book library.