Sentences with phrase «reader than reading a book»

Nothing is more frustrating for a reader than reading a book filled with grammatical and typographical errors.

Not exact matches

Is the «reading of books» nothing more than bringing information to the reader?

More than one reader of her autobiography must have read her reference to this collection of conferences and wondered if this book is available - now it is.

More than that, if a reader wants to know about the stories of Genesis, again he should turn to Walter Schenck and read his book First voices, which also received outstanding praises.

WHAT YOU DID N'T KNOW: An avid reader, Moore estimates he's read more than 100 books over the past decade.

Share Speaking as a mom of early readers and an avid lover of reading (I only wish my reading list contained something other than children stories, but then again my music selection also suffers the same fate), I strongly believe in the importance of reading (the earlier the introduction to books the better).

This book is an easy reader that is sure to appeal to all gifted children, but particularly those who prefer to read a book during recess rather than play basketball.

I'm a voracious reader and work in publishing, so the amount of books I read per year is probably more than the average person, but I primarily read fiction.

Rather than a meaningful criticism, this latter possibility shows how evocatively Martin marshals his material, making the reader want to read further beyond the book itself.

The whole deal was useful and interesting, especially given that I'm currently hip - deep in my new book project, The Cage - Busting Teacher (about which, I'm sure, RHSU readers will read more than they'd like in» 14).

I'm an impatient reader and like the sense of different perspectives talking to each other, so I end up reading chapters from different open books at the same time, rather than concentrating on one book at a time.

«One must be ever - mindful of the fact that poor readers need more help than others in selecting interesting and easy books to read on their own,» said Marson in The California Reader.

Study after study finds that young readers select independent reading books that are harder than their «independent reading levels» (Donovan, et al., 2010).

Recognized as the standard for matching readers with texts, tens of millions of students worldwide receive a Lexile measure that helps them find targeted readings from more than 100 million articles, books and websites that have been measured.

We must remember that reading is more than a mere process of moving up levels, and that struggling readers may have limited choices when leveled books are overemphasized.

He discusses four trends in instruction that encourage shallow thinking and reading and limit both the amount and quality of true reading students engage in: (1) Schools value the development of test - takers more than the development of readers; (2) Schools limit authentic reading experiences; (3) Teachers overteach books; and (4) Teachers underteach books.

As librarians, teachers, and researchers, we must remember that reading is more than a mere process of moving up levels, and that struggling readers may have limited choices when leveled books are overemphasized.

Even if you write a book better than that international bestseller in your genre category, it will languish in the Kindle store and on the bookshelf unless you convince readers to take a risk and invest time in reading -LSB-...]

The Kindle Paperwhite might be the best ebook reader there is, but the iPad mini does a lot more than just read books.

Not only are Goodreads readers willing to take copies of your book, they are usually more interested in reading it than other readers as well.

When you talk about your book, write descriptions, advertising copy or get interviewed about your book, keep in mind that potential readers are more interested in the outcome they can get from reading than the contents of your book.

Whatever my neuroses, I can definitively state that I'd much rather have those who read my books feel comfortable leaving honest reviews for other readers than for them to not leave a review at all.

I heard recently that people who buy ebook readers are actually reading more books than before.

Real books leave the reader better off for having read the book than not.

Rather than having to stick with an author you like — say, by reading all of Stephen King's books, or branching out to Dean Koontz because you liked Stephen King — you can get a glimpse of what books readers enjoyed that might not seem to correlate on the surface.

People have a tendency to believe that the first book of yours they read was also the first book you wrote, so many readers who were introduced to Liz through Eat, Pray, Love (there were more than 8 million of them) neglected to notice that she had already written three other books before that, two of them fiction.

Prolific readers who chose romance were reading for almost 90 minutes a day, and finding time more than six times a day to settle down with a book.

A pioneer of the all - you - can - read model, Scribd's subscriptions service allows readers to have unlimited access to more than 500,000 books from nearly 1,000 publishers, including Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Open Road Media, Lonely Planet, National Geographic, Rosetta, Workman, Wiley and Smashwords.

In fact, reading paper books puts much more strain on the body — for example, since the font size of paper books is not adjustable, the reader may need to hold the book closer or farther from the eyes than what would be ergonomically optimal.

The main reasons why the comics are going to experience a price increase this April is because physical copies of these books will finally come with a «free» digital copy of the same issue, allowing readers to maintain a physical collection alongside building a digital library of books, an avenue of comics reading that's become steadily more popular than physical books in recent years.

Second, by definition censorship requires a larger - scale effort than one reader choosing to read a version of the book with the profanity removed.

Rather than introducing that reader to your wonderful world of poetry, you might turn them off from reading your books entirely.

And even if they don't, they're going to sell 50 million metric shitloads of Kindle books because you don't even need a Kindle to read Kindle books... Amazon has readers for the iPad (which is way better than Apple's iBooks app IMO), iPhone, Android devices, Blackberry, WinPhone 7, Windows, and OS X. I never would have predicted it, but I am a firm convert to Kindle books... and I don't even have a Kindle.

Maybe soon all this book gaming will start to piss readers off when there's hardly any good books to read any more, then they'll go looking for writers who stuck with it and write good fiction, rather than just pumping out crap and then gaming the system.

This simple widget allows authors and publishers to increase views of their books and potentially increase their sales by placing a sample of the book directly onto their website rather than having potential readers go to the Amazon page to read a sample of the book.

Interesting proposition that to the list of things we «have» to do as authors, we get to add seducing the reader to read more than the first 10 % of the book.

Another interesting component is that Scribd will also pay in cases where the reader reads more than the first 15 % of the book, but less than 30 %.

SEATTLE — December 7, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kindle, the # 1 bestselling product across all of Amazon, has enabled many vision - impaired readers to enjoy books more easily than before, and has also helped dyslexic readers and those with learning disabilities improve their reading skills.

Godin's decision is also backed up by sales successes like Amazon's Kindle e-reader, Apple's iPad, and even reports like this one that suggest the e-book revolution is redefining the nature of reading itself, and reading e-books means readers are less isolated than if they were reading a physical book.

Otherwise I'd be reading books on my iPhone via Stanza or etc., which I'm not doing because realistically I only get three hours of battery life that way — far less than if I fire up my e-ink based reader.

With the growing popularity of ebook readers like the Kindle and iPad, more and more people are reading on a screen rather than from printed books.

Readers can wirelessly shop the Kindle Store, download books in less than 60 seconds, automatically receive newspaper and magazine subscriptions, receive personal documents, and read from their library — now in over 100 countries and territories.

However, like many other readers, I prefer to read physical books rather than ebooks.

Join more than 20 million other readers on Goodreads to discover great books and have discussions about what you're reading.

Owners of ebook readers read more than they did as print book readers.

FISHERAnd, Lee Rainie, you — the survey has found that not only do e-readers read print books as well, but also e-readers tend to read more books as a whole than pure print readers.

Last Monday, Kindle announced that authors who participate in Amazon's Kindle Direct Select program will now be paid by the number of pages their readers consume, rather than the percentage of the book they read.

And, Kindle will soon begin compensating you for your book's appearance in KOLL and Unlimited by the number of pages that readers consume, rather than the percentage of the book that's read.

And I tend to believe (in general) that readers pay more careful attention when they read a book than read from a device... I also think books matter as physical objects.

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