Sentences with phrase «stuck to paper books»

Not only that, but I've discovered a few authors I wouldn't have read if I'd stuck to paper books.

Not exact matches

When I was a youth in school, I often filled my class notes and homemade, brown - paper - bag book covers with everything from ornate graphic designs to stick figures.

Whether we're writing a paper, a book, or just trying to come up with an original birthday gift, we've all been stuck waiting for inspiration to find us.

They then cut and stick into books or onto another sheet of paper in order from least to most liquid.

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I know most people now think paper books are going to go the way of the Tazmanian cat, but I'm not 100 % convinced it won't stick around in some fashion for years to come.

There are endless possibilities for ebooks to make reading more accessible and immersvie than ever, but as long as ebooks try to be paper books, they will remain stuck in an uncanny valley of disappointment.

In a world where traditional publishers are still basically brokering to sell and warehouse paper rather than books (i.e. sticking to an antiquated business model in a market where ebooks are rapidly growing to be the majority of sales and shouldn't be ignored), this is a landmark deal.

I've either got my nose stuck in a paper book or I'm looking at a laptop screen all day at my job so reading on my commute home doesn't appeal to me like it once did.

Or did your family and friends stick to gifting classic ink - and - paper books?

Not until he pulled the book out and was about to place it in its proper spot did he notice a crisp piece of ivory paper sticking out of it.

I like to be optimistic and say that paper books will stick around in spite of the morbid speculation concerning their downfall.

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Certainly a paper book would have been a more pleasant experience, but there were advantages to portable reading: I could whip it out of my pocket while stuck on the bus, and read under the covers by the greenish back - lit glow.

The Kindle so far is winning as I want something to read books on, but I would like the advantage of a colour screen and all the bells and whistles that come with the Fire but as it looks like Amazon won't be bringing the good stuff to the UK any time soon I might stick to good old fashioned paper for a little bit longer.

-- The VAT is stuck at 18 % for any book without a physical component, though the Spanish government has promised the publishers it will fight in Brussels to convince EU regulators to reduce the rate for e-books to the same preferential 4 % enjoyed in Spain by paper books.

Next to my desk, I hung a scrap of paper on which I wrote this quote from the life - changing book Coercion & its Fallout by Dr. Murray Sidman: «An overworked and incorrect bit of folk wisdom pronounces the carrot to be of no avail unless backed up by the stick.

Though working in a variety of mediums, the artist is known primarily for his painting, bringing acrylic and oil stick to a range of surfaces — linen, paper, wood and pages of books — and exploring the human tendency for pattern hunting.

And the year after the AR4 came out, Michael Mann published a paper claiming to validate his original hockey stick, repeating this claim for years after, including in a book he still promotes on his publicity tours.

Paste the backs of the birds with paper glue, such as PVA, and stick the shapes to the front of the book, smoothing any air bubbles with a brush then leave to dry.