Sentences with phrase «reasoning than reading a book»

An fMRI study by UCLA suggested that, in people who were considered «web - literate», conduct Google searches shows more activity in brain areas involved in decision making and reasoning than reading a book:

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There is no reason why Jacobs should not lampoon a book after a brief glance rather than dignifying it with a review, but it is a bit much to accompany the caricature with advice to the author on the virtues of close reading.

But its validity was suggested as early as 1969, when a Gallup Poll revealed that 58 percent of all Americans had never finished reading a book other than a textbook or the Bible, and only 26 percent had read a book in the previous month.24 One reason for this near - illiteracy is America's addiction to television.

But a deeper reason than mere contrariness motivates Fish's literary criticism; and to read his earlier work in the light of his latest Milton book points to a feature of his thought too little noted in the past.

If for some reason it does nt make sense to you, then consider buying the excellent book from Tom Venuto Burn The Fat — Its a well written book which you can read in 6 hours which covers this topic in much more detail than I do here.

There are probably a lot of reason you would n`t want to read my book: you do n`t know me from any other random guy on the internet, you «ve never read any of my other books because this is my first book, and there are millions of authors with more experience than me.

The reason the court gave for calling ebooks a separate product than a book (and therefore subjected to a different tax rate) is that a separate device must be used and presumably purchased in order to read the ebook.

But, he adds, «it reads like a good comic book, which is more than enough reason to keep an eye out for the next entry in the series.»

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.

With so much reading going on, it's possible that print books are preferred for another completely practical reason: reading on screens tires out your eyes much faster than reading on paper.

But concluding that all book trailers are a silly approach to book promotion doesn't make any more sense than deciding that blogging for book publicity is a bad idea after you've seen a badly - written book blog, or reasoning that media releases don't work after you've seen an incompetently - handled press release (most likely, one that reads as if it were an ad for a book, which won't accomplish anything, rather than an actual news release, which most likely will help you achieve your book promotion goals).

After giving it some serious thought, I realized there are seven main reasons I now love reading my Kindle even more than regular books»

«There's a reason publishing is an industry and that's because it generally produces better books, and books more people want to read than one person working alone.

The reason it works is that people can now read the reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, and those reviews to a huge extent influence books sales, perhaps even more than media coverage.

But it's become so much more than a place to buy... Continue Reading 10 Reasons Amazon is Great for Book Lovers»

I don't read a lot of nonfiction (for no other reason than I devour novels like candy, and there are only so many books a girl can read in a year).

Sitting down with a big stack of comic books is something I still do as an adult, and even though I tell myself there are grown - up reasons to do that — it seems more efficient to read a bunch of books in one 45 minute go, than to read each of them in five to ten minutes bites spread thoughout the day — I think we overlook the hidden value in the act.

That the reason why many (not everybody, but definitely many) now read fewer books is that the web, social media, and apps give them more value, provide a better experience, and just generally have a bigger — more positive — effect on their life than books would.

I got an ereader mostly because I noticed I'd almost stopped buying new books for the simple reason that I'm running out of room for them, but I found it actually more pleasant to read on that than on paper.

Since consumers almost always have the option to read books in physical formats, they are indicating a preference to return to print... Overall, 14 % of book buyers said they are now reading fewer e-books than when they started reading books in the format, and 59 % percent of those who said they are reading fewer e-books cited a preference for print as the main reason for switching back to physical 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 %).

But, for once, a commonsense improvement that does nothing more than give users more control of their ereader device has been made available, and educators have yet another reason to look somewhere other than the Kindle when they expand their students» access to books with digital text and mobile reading platforms.

Well this is all possible but utterly too complex to go through every time you want to add something and it does not work if your CM7 is on an SD card so I guess I will maybe have to give up because so far I see no good reason to root other than reading Kindle Books.

Wish I'd read these comments before booking; there's a reason their economy seats are cheaper than the competition's.

I have also read in a reputable book that one of the reasons the warm pool is higher is merely due to the fact that warm water occupies more room, ie for hydrostatic equilibrium to apply the relatively deep warm pool should be higher than the cooler water to the East.

There is no other reason for me to want to apply for the position of an Editorial Assistant than my great love for books and reading.

I read Jay Adkisson's book on Asset Protection that other folks were touting as the bible on the subject & I've got to say it is a better perspective than anything else I've read.One thing he harps on in his book is if a person uses a professional that puts out marketing materials stressing the use of the strategy for asset protection then it may get drug up by the litigator in effort to try & invalidate the instrument so that's another super exotic reason I'd be a little leery to have Tim Berry's firm tagged on my option docs.Regardless I'm convinced paying his consulting fee will be money well spent.Hopefully BP will help me gather a slightly better understanding so I ask more prudent questions when I do pony up for some hour (s) of his time.Thanks!