Sentences with phrase «time reading my library books»

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Doc — I read every Heinlein book I could get my hands on when I was a kid... they were all in the public library by mid-70's early 80's... «The Moon is a harsh mistress» and «The number of the beast» are my all time favorites.

It's virtual book club time with Toddler Approved and The Educators Spin On It — and we have read this book online as our library couldn't get us a copy in time.

Local libraries and bookstores often host story time and provide other toys to keep kids occupied beyond the book reading.

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.

It was Christmas break and I couldn't go home, so I spent my time at the library reading all the journals and looking at rare books.

I won't have internet access / library access / lots of room to bring books, so I'm diving into reads that will take a little time AKA not likely not the easy breezy summer read.

The thing is, reading books takes time, and while I wish I could say I've read them all, I haven't — but that just means I've got a long - standing list of great ones to check out every time I hit up the local library.

As it turns out, this is the human - size residence of Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward), a dour 12 - year - old with sad raccoon eyes who spends her time reading filched library books, listening to Benjamin Britten compositions and peering longingly through an ever - present pair of binoculars.

Of Blocks And Books: Parents may be more likely to take a young daughter to the library than a son, and to read to the girl for longer periods of time, a new analysis suggests.

Many schools carefully track at home reading logs — counting minutes and pages read, checking for daily parent signatures, reviewing and check - marking summaries of what was read, counting book completion rates, etc., while devoting little to no time for kids to actually read quietly in the classroom (or the library, hallways, etc.).

As an adult, you probably like getting recommendations from friends and colleagues on what to read, but if every time you went to the library one of the staff picked out your books, it's a fair bet you may start to lose interest.

I remember when I was a student, I found it easier to study in the library, because every time I felt the urge to put the books down and procrastinate, I lifted my head up and saw fellow students who wrote their essays, read their books, took notes and worked hard.

Book that you remember reading over and over during childhood: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Currently reading: Bibliotech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google by John Palfrey The thing that drew you to it: This past March, I attended the Ed School's professional development institute Library Leadership in a Digital Age where John [Palfrey], a former Harvard colleague at the law library, challenged us to create new and different partnerships, including those outside of academia, as we transition to a digital future and redefine the role and work of lLibraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google by John Palfrey The thing that drew you to it: This past March, I attended the Ed School's professional development institute Library Leadership in a Digital Age where John [Palfrey], a former Harvard colleague at the law library, challenged us to create new and different partnerships, including those outside of academia, as we transition to a digital future and redefine the role and work of librarieslibraries.

Other Urban Legends include: Humphrey Bogart was the original Gerber baby on their baby food ads, the FBI monitors public libraries and notes who reads «subversive» books, and my favorite: If the entire population of China jumped up at the same time, the US would be swamped by a tidal wave.

Some ideas to make reading appealing to adolescents include pairing classic literature with similarly themed young adult fiction; building a classroom library that addresses the curriculum and the needs of students; providing time for sustained silent reading; start book clubs; and using Venn diagrams, dinner party, and readers» theater techniques to explore issues in literature.

a library in every room, tens of thousands of books for students to choose among, time to read them every day, and smart, individualized instruction that results in both high proficiency and a passion for books and reading

Her approach is simple yet provocative: affirm the reader in every student, allow students to choose their own books, carve out extra reading time, model authentic reading behaviors, discard timeworn reading assignments such as book reports and comprehension worksheets, and develop a classroom library filled with high - interest books.

Over time, staff members unearthed cartons of books that had been sitting unused in storage closets for years — books that they put back into the library organized by reading level.

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

But still, for those readers who actually develop relationships with each book they read, one at a time, carrying around a portable library just doesn't feel authentic.

You have to go to the library, maybe the book has been checked out and you have to come back another time... With ebooks, you sit on your couch in your living room and go to the library website, see if the library has it... You get the book, read it, return it and get another, all without paying a thing... How is that a good model for us?»

Living both in the Little Girl's world and in their own, they spend their time reading books in the library, watching television and trying to make sense of their world.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington,... [Read more...]

It is time for other stakeholders in the e-book market to clearly acknowledge the important role of libraries in developing a reading culture which actively fosters the sale of books and eBooks».

There's a cost for them to ingest, manage and lend even free books (Adobe charges libraries for each lend, even of free books), so they're unlikely to want free books that aren't going to get read (there's a need in the marketplace for a free open source DRM checkout system that libraries can use, but that's a matter for another time, and some entrepreneur other than yours truly).

If Look Inside isn't available, but I'm intrigued enough, then I will borrow the book from the library to see if it's worth buying (I have a bad habit of reading about 15 books concurrently, so I rarely finish a book in the time allotted by the library).

Some of the advantages of smartphone reading are common to all e-books: The ability to store many titles in a single device, to borrow e-books from the library without worrying about returning them on time and to get the book you want in an instant.

I assume that's what the original fonts option would be for (I'm too lazy to download, import, convert, and sideload everything anymore so I haven't used Calibre in a long time — mostly I just read library ebooks lately because it's my opinion that 90 % of writers suck at writing so I have no interest in paying for most books).

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I use my ereader about 30 % of the time, maybe more now, but I still read a lot of print books that I get from the library or from author events.

My college had a quote by John Ruskin engraved on the library walls that read, «All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.»

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 limitatiRead 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 limitatiread 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.

I loved reading historical novels about feisty women, and by the time I was nine, my mother was taking out books by Anya Seton and Margaret Campbell Barnes from the Lakewood, Ohio, public library for me to read.

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

At my library our summer reading program won't be tracking books or amount of time reading, but rather by a Bingo board of categories.

Now, since we share an account as a family, there are things in my library that I personally haven't read and probably won't — my son likes books on the military, my daughter the classics, and I won't be reading any of that any time soon.

Teen Read Week is all about encouraging teen readers to go to the library and get lost in a book, but it's also a good time to remind adult readers that the YA shelves have plenty of engaging books that will suit the reading preferences of an older audience.

Book of the Day is an excellent alarm clock for all you devoted library - goers... when you get an e-mail from us about a book you want to read, that means it's time to place a hold at the librBook of the Day is an excellent alarm clock for all you devoted library - goers... when you get an e-mail from us about a book you want to read, that means it's time to place a hold at the librbook you want to read, that means it's time to place a hold at the library.

And these 16 - 17 year - olds also led all other age groups in borrowing books, especially print books: 65 % of high schoolers who read a print book in the past year had checked one out from a public library in that time period, compared with 48 % of all print readers.

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

E-books are less expensive than printed books especially if you enjoy reading much and need to refresh your library from time to time.

A library reader, Library Journal's Ian Singer reported in Charleston, may read, on average, some 29 books each year, as compared to non-library readers who, Library Journal reports, read 11 books on average in the same time frame.

Following the announcement this week that Scholastic will be donating one million books to schools and libraries whose collections were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, Scholastic's digital reading platform Storia will be making a similarly large donation, this time to encourage a love of reading at the holidays.

It is a great way to read — and having a library of books in my pocket at all times means I'm never without a book.

You can be sure that all of your books will remain in your library, and you can keep reading seamlessly and effortlessly at any time.

And then there's this thing called a public library (you're familiar with that I trust) where a book could get loaned and read hundreds of times without the author getting another dime.

I've found several interesting «new» authors in my search of the local digital library; had their book not been available to read electronically through the library, I wouldn't have bothered to pick up the hard copy * primarily because I don't want to physically go to my library most of the time).

Even if you can't donate books to a local school or library, if there's a kid your life, take time to share your love of words with them by reading a book.

Unless I really, really like a book and want to read it several times (which rarely happens) I don't care about owning it so library lending works great for me.

Books added to your library are available for offline reading, though you can only store 12 at a time.