Sentences with phrase «use of libraries instead»

I learned to cook as soon as I moved out, I buy all my clothes (and a lot of other things, too) at thrift stores, I rarely take a vacation that doesn't involve crashing on someone's couch (though I also rock at Priceline's Name Your Own Price hotel rooms), and I make heavy use of libraries instead of buying many books.

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Instead of a page that loads megabytes worth of poorly - optimized Javascript libraries just so it can add an analytical tracker or a network ad, publishers get a page that loads a single library and then pulls in the other parts of the page as required, using smart tags.

Instead of creating your social media graphics from scratch, use Canva's amazing library of templates, which you can use and customize — for free!

When you study world history and archeology using books found in a library instead of a church gift shop, a completely different picture develops.

Instead of a library of arithmetic routines, for instance, there was a graphical calculator gadget, and either a digital character or an actual human could use it to add numbers through the same interface.

Instead of using double - stranded DNA to make genetic libraries that can be fed into a next - gen sequencer, as was standard practice at the time, Meyer and his team first separated the double helix, then prepared the sequence library using each of the single strands, doubling the amount of fragments the group had to sequence.

Our students are digital natives, born in an age where they use Google at the library instead of searching through a card catalog.

Or you might instruct students to use library resources instead of the African - American Firsts Web page.

The publisher has agreed to allow library patrons to download ebook titles wirelessly via OverDrive's «Get for Kindle» function instead of, as initially announced, first downloading titles to a computer, and then side - loading those titles to their Kindle classic or Paperwhite using a USB cord.

When large publishers were faced with the advent of ebooks, instead of trying to come up with viable models that worked in libraries, they applied the same structures that they used for paper.

For the writer I guess the question is whether people will get a kindle subscription instead of buying or instead of using the library or in addition to those things or will it bring new readers entirely.

CreateSpace, for example, locks you out of some of their expanded distribution channels, such as libraries and academic institutions, if you use your own ISBN instead of one they provide.

Instead of going to the library, students could easily use the internet to retrieve information.

He suggests as win / win that a library should be able to buy a large number of check - outs and use them all in the month of a book's release instead of spreading them out over year or more, like the print book model.

Instead of referring to different Javascript libraries, Bill hoped that they would adopt the same library that web browsers are using - Webkit - to preserve all the rich features.

If you really want to share Kindle ebooks instead of having a family member choose the method in which they want to read the book (i.e. purchase a hard copy or use the library), you can either (1) purchase additional Kindles for your family members and share the ebooks that way, or (2) physically lend them your Kindle (which I notice critics never accept as a real possibility).

As the price of ereaders continues to drop, as more and more people use smartphones instead of landlines, reading on a mobile device is going to penetrate even more of every library's service population.

The first is the new grid view for your library which lets you see thumbnail icons of all your books instead of a the default list view which Amazon's Kindle apps for smartphones uses.

Instead of paying for literature on the subject, why not make use of an American library system that you're already supporting with your tax dollars?

One thing I've wondered about electronic libraries is why ebooks would ever need to be on hold instead of being instantly downloadable — why are we using a physical - goods model for non-physical borrowing?

Google also recently added support for uploading your own ePub ebooks to your Google Play Book's account, making it easier to consolidate your ebook library instead of having to use a bunch of different apps.

In fact, there is already «digital loan» software in wide use by public libraries that does not bother to impose any DRM on e-books, opting instead to automatically delete the books after the load period has expired.17 While users could defeat this by digging up and copying the underlying file, most users don't bother, just like most Netflix subscribers don't bother to copy the DVDs they rent, despite the ready availability of free software that can accomplish that goal.

• Increase the deductibles on your home and auto insurance policies • Use your local library instead of the bookstore and video store • Make your Coffee / Latte habit a luxury and make your own at home • Drop your home phone line and use your cell phone • Bring your lunch to work more often • Call your Cable TV provider and inquire about specials and promotions (or check out a local competitUse your local library instead of the bookstore and video store • Make your Coffee / Latte habit a luxury and make your own at home • Drop your home phone line and use your cell phone • Bring your lunch to work more often • Call your Cable TV provider and inquire about specials and promotions (or check out a local competituse your cell phone • Bring your lunch to work more often • Call your Cable TV provider and inquire about specials and promotions (or check out a local competitor)

Instead of the relatively straightforward gameplay of the first game (lock - on, rush in, slice nape), I found myself using the library of skills at my disposal.

The relics that Shovel Knight collected in his adventure can still be found, but instead of being used as their own weapons, Plague Knight can trade them in to a merchant in exchange for Arcana, which basically function like Shovel Knight's relics and use magic points, but they are an entirely new library of moves.

One organization that my library uses for interlibrary loan will not send PDF copies of material for copyright reasons; instead the copies must be faxed to us.

For example, instead of baldly informing them of the existence of such resources as personal injury quantum digests, when to use it, how to find the call number and whether or not you have it available electronically, rather present an interesting slip and fall issue, and then task them with finding answers using Google, other internet resources and what's available in the library.

Mary Ellen Bates in her article on Library Metrics lists a number of qualitative methods that libraries can use to measure the value of what they provide, suggesting that «instead of telling their management that they handled X research requests, [the library staff] tell stories about the project that saved the company from going into an unprofitable market, identified a new competitor, and so on.»

Instead of writing that code themselves, and then writing all the little bits and pieces that have to interpret what the ping results mean, they can use code from the library that performs that function.

Much like P2SH, most won't be implementing SegWit from scratch, but will instead use one of the many Bitcoin libraries that has done the protocol level work and effectively pushed the additional complexity under the hood.

Instead of showcasing a library of personal pics, this one will use Maps and points of interests as live wallpapers.

In addition, music not purchased from iTunes can gain the same benefits by using iTunes Match, a service that replaces your music with a 256 kbps AAC DRM - free version if we can match it to the over 18 million songs in the iTunes Store ®, it makes the matched music available in minutes (instead of weeks to upload your entire music library), and uploads only the small percentage of unmatched music.

Or how about instead emulating the look of a library using wallpaper?