Sentences with phrase «small library of books»

There is small library of books and a cupboard equipped with many games and puzzles to keep the family -LSB-...]

There is a small library of books for you to enjoy throughout your stay.

A bedroom on the first floor is furnished with a queen bed and includes a small library of books, as well as its own TV and a full bath with stall shower.

There is also 3 HDTVs, 2 DVD players and a Blu - Ray, an MP3 docking station and small library of books and board games.

Not exact matches

This observation was brought delightfully home to me a few months ago, when I dropped a small pile of books on the checkout desk at my neighborhood public library.

So I went through my small library of cooking books and found this book that my sister - in - law gave me from USA.

As a new or soon - to - be parent, there's no doubt that you now have a small library of advice books telling you all the secrets of being the perfect parent.

From a bank of computers at a small - town library to mammoth case - law books piled on wooden tables at a university, today's libraries must straddle the analog and digital worlds.

With the help of the few books I found on heredity in our small town library (pre-internet), I composed an essay on basic Mendelian inheritance, in which I discussed why some children in a family develop a disease and others do not.

Bousted said that too many schools are turning their libraries into classrooms and discarding books, with some school libraries being too small and having inadequate numbers of computers for children.

For book buddies, they say, take small numbers of student / elder pairs and provide books of different levels in a space that offers some privacy and a library - like environment.

Simultaneously, we moved from the inside of the building to the outside — with the planting of gardens maintained by students, staff and families at each grade level, as well as a «little free library» — a small wooden chest in our front lawn where students can pick up a book they'd like to read as long as they drop off a book they'd like to share.

Because of our growing, but still small, school library, many of our students do not get the opportunity to read «window» and «mirror» books.

Unfortunately, with a small number of bookstores and libraries to support local book sales, there are challenges for publishers selling within the country.

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Tangible libraries in small towns have more functions than just lending books, but they also provide parents with an easy way to get their kids out of the home and discovering the love of reading.

We accept galleys and newly published reference books that are meant for the general collections of small - to - medium public libraries and school libraries.

For lovers of books, the virtues of a library are not hard to sell, but in Riverton, New Hampshire, a small mill town that has seen better days, the books are usually the last things to bring people to the library.

Our library will give members of small language communities access to books written in their mother tongues.Eventually, Write Our World hopes to offer a networking space where students can interact and even collaborate on global projects.

You can tap the small «See all of your books» link beneath to jump to your full library, or tap on the Library icon (same as the aforementioned in Home), and it will take you to the same library - of - books screen that you get from «See all of your books.»

IngramSpark is the go - to distributor for Indies and small publishing houses because, unlike CreateSpace, it is not in direct competition with the bookstores and libraries that order through them, which increases the likelihood of getting a physical book onto store shelves.

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Book retailers, distributors, libraries and schools will rarely contract with individual authors and small publishers for the purchase of books.

Only a small number of ebook vendors (actually, Springer is the only one I know of) allow for any sort of ILL, which means that the more our book collections go digital, the less we will be able to loan to other libraries or borrow from other libraries.

One of the more frustrating truths about self - publishing and libraries is that indie authors have had a hard time getting their books into their own local libraries, as budgets are small and the risk of insult when the book is of poor quality is high.

The lack of new and quality titles led to fewer satisfied patrons coming to the library, which of course, once again led to smaller budgets and fewer books.

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).

His collection of science fiction, fantasy and mystery books bring tears of envy to the eyes of many small community libraries.

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.)

My local library was very small and had a bookmobile come each month.The local librarian was one of my favorite people because of many reasons, but one was letting me help her choose books.

How do I increase the font size of a library book I downloaded — it doesn't seem to give me an option and the print is really small.

He is co-editor of the third edition of Recommended Reference Books in Paperback (2000), and editor of the seventh edition of Reference Sources for Small and Medium Sized Libraries (2008), and is a contributor to the Guide to Reference.

Many libraries have their own reading app, giving you access to thousands of books for only a small membership fee.

Obviously, small libraries have a finite budget and are not in a position to pay a ton of money for books patrons want to borrow.

It has done partnerships with a company called Bilbary, which, as Carrie said, is a company that makes it possible for patrons who see a book that there's a long hold period on, that they can buy the book and the library gets a small part of the profit.

But library patrons can buy ebooks from Random House and others for reasonably low prices, certainly for prices that are a small fraction of what libraries pay annually to rent the same books from OverDrive.

Now, small town libraries and stores sell copies of the book, but it sells very well on Amazon.»

Right now, the DRM - free status of these books, including over 1500 titles from O'Reilly Media as well as the works of these recently added smaller presses, would mean that the books remain accessible even after the borrowing period has expired on the library ebook.

Our CBE program includes shows such as The London Book Fair «New Title Showcase,» small state library shows and all manner of shows in between.

The original (and continuing) mission of the Midwest Book Review is to promote literacy, library usage, and small press publishing.

My book review operation was a success from the very beginning in terms of attracting publishers wanting to submit books for review and being able to pay any overhead expenses using review copies as a source of income by selling them to local bookstores and community libraries in Madison, Wisconsin and other surrounding small communities hereabouts.

The chief source for P - CIP for many years has been Quality Books, a distributor of small press books to libraBooks, a distributor of small press books to librabooks to libraries.

Now, its library of 1.5 million free books can be viewed on the small screen, wherever you are.

Philip Harris, founder of Electron Press, thought the electronic book would be a great medium for his small publishing house's library of edgier titles (currently distributed as PDF files)-- until he comprehended the fees that the electronic book companies would charge to sell his text for an electronic book.

Libraries don't have different rates of payment for different publishers (Amazon are apparently paying medium - sized publishers the full cost of the book every time it's lent out, and only making the small publishers and self - publishers compete among themselves for scraps).

With endowment money behind it, OverDrive's task would be easier, since libraries are now such a small part of the book market as a whole.

Making books available for library lending is an obligation which comes with the rights granted under copyright law, and is limited in very important ways which mean that it has relatively little effect on authors» earning power, and for the vast majority of them it makes up a very small proportion of their total income, so the zero - sum effect doesn't really kick in.

Small bookstores are being shuttered, book chains are going out of business, libraries are suffering enormous budget cuts, and every publisher - and the people who work at these publishing houses - is feeling a great deal of pain and stress.

So small edition, fine press books that usually end up in institutions or rare book libraries, so kind of a rarefied sort of art form.

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