Sentences with phrase «voracious reading of»

Laurel A. Rockefeller: Library books are free to read, and we do know that borrowing from a library does encourage reading — as noted by my voracious reading of Dorothy Fontana's books as a pre-teen, just before the accident that took my sight.

My research, study and immersion into the REAL FOOD world continues practically every day... with voracious reading of nutrition books, participating in on - site and on - line classes, attending conferences and webinars, and teaching local workshops about traditional foods.

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Some of the best business people in the world — people like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Elon Musk — are famed for voracious reading habits.

Because he is a voracious reader who goes in for heavy reading about ultimate concerns, his humor can be appreciated especially by those familiar with the pretentiousness of some religious and philosophical literature.

It might be a day of voracious reading.

From his voracious reading, he knew that a blue - light - emitting semiconductor device was the holy grail of optoelectronics, and he resolved to get into the fray.

I'm a voracious reader and work in publishing, so the amount of books I read per year is probably more than the average person, but I primarily read fiction.

We've watched some of our most reluctant readers — Spanish middle - school boys who happened to be big soccer fans — start out slowly reading sports articles on eBook screens and grow into voracious readers of print books on every imaginable subject.»

Studies have shown that voracious reading improves students» academic performance in a variety of realms.

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One eReader can be used to read literally thousands of books and as most of them require a charge once a week or even less, depending on how voracious a reader's appetite is, eReaders begin to look like the more green approach to reading.

The voracious reading habits of older people likely comes from an era where reading was the only form of entertainment, that was easily accessible.

Brown's picture - book account of Edison's childhood begins with his poor performance in school, voracious reading habits, and chemistry experiments during his downtime at numerous jobs.

It is well reported that this threshold model at Scribd very nearly led to bankruptcy as a result of voracious reading by some «super users».

A number of those readers are voracious readers and want new books and new authors because they have already read the established author's backlists and there aren't enough new books being published through traditional channels to keep their reading habit supplied.

The only thing I had was a voracious reading habit and an instictual understanding of grammar.

As a bookseller, I watched every day as voracious readers came into the store, stood in front of the small section of shelves where they most enjoyed to read, and were dismayed that there was nothing there for them.

For the Romance Reader — eBooks, social media, and an explosion of great content have made it easier than ever to enjoy reading what you want, when you want, and at a range of prices that make even the most voracious romance habit affordable.

When you're hanging out with one of these voracious readers, they'll make you want to read more just by simple proximity.

Which of the reader will add value to my voracious reading habit.

I don't pay for developmental editing because I go through several rounds of beta reading with other authors as crit partners, some bloggers, some voracious readers.

It is amazing to come across people who set up things like neighborhood book exchanges, book clubs, and drop / pickup boxes and realize how many books these voracious readers consume and how few of them ever read an ebook.

And I say only «somewhat sadly» because the inability to properly review, aside from causing some guilt, has also allowed me to read for pleasure and nothing else and remind me of the kind of reader I once was: voracious, relaxed, in the moment.

For those of us who are voracious readers, how has the eReader market changed your reading habits?

And the readers of romance books, in particular people who read independent authors are the most voracious readers in the book world.

All I know for sure is that I am a voracious reader and I was an early adopter of the Kindle and when I first got my shiny new Kindle I bought tons of books and I was so happy at how cheap they were because I could afford to read so many more books.

If those «most voracious readers» were reading 100 times the cost of their monthly fee then they would be consuming $ 900 worth of books a month, which is quite some going.

I ignore them unless they speak of avid or voracious reading themselves or just seem to be an unusually kindred spirit.

In summary, what I get from constant & voracious reading is a giant, random & ever - changing mosaic of knowledge, experience & inspiration.

In length of trait 9, Charlie advises: «Develop into a lifelong self - learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.»

And I said to Pauline, half of my time is spent reading, because I had read or heard that Warren Buffett was a voracious reader, which he is.

If Bolduc's earlier work tended toward the decorative, the paintings he began making in the 1980s and continued through the 1990s took on a deeper symbolic significance, reflecting both the influence of his travels and his voracious reading (his close friend Michael Ondaatje once remarked that Bolduc was the best - read person he had ever met).

Her decadent clothing and voracious appetite can be seen as a commentary on how the trappings of civilization separate us from the natural world and encourage excessive consumption, while her ritualistic movements may be read as an attempt to reconnect with both the earthly and spiritual realms of the forest around her.

I am a voracious consumer of news and much of my news - reading time over the last few months has been spent focused on the situation in Zimbabwe, the land of my birth, where the rule of law and respect for human rights has all but disappeared.