Sentences with phrase «what lending books»

We outline what lending books actually means and how authors opt into the program, sometimes without knowing all the facts.

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Some of these are bound to work better than others (The Book of Exodus doesn't really lend itself to the sort of story Scott clearly wanted to tell), but the lesson to audiences is clear: Just because a movie is about the Bible doesn't mean you can know what to expect when you sit down to watch it.

Back in London, I'm now ploughing my way through What to Expect When You're Expecting, having previously only digested it in app form (my friend Kirsten — who has a beautiful eight month old girl — very kindly lent me lots of pregnancy and baby books).

A former Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration, author of 14 books, and current professor at UC Berkeley, Reich lends invaluable experience and unstoppable vigor to what could have been a cold, dismaying film.

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But what if your book's topic doesn't lend itself to an easy discussion starter?

Random House, whose price increase on digital versions of its titles for library lending, reiterated what can be great news for libraries, mainly that when a library purchases an ebook for lending to its patrons, that book is the property of the library.

(I'm always wary of lending out a book that I've marked up, for fear of what my notes might inadvertently reveal.)

If you've written fiction or a memoir, consider what aspects of your book might lend themselves to lectures: local history, politics, social movements, etc..

I think for the most part, books and films, lend themselves to the honesty of what is experienced in our own lives, but tend to take on an element of fantasy in certain storylines in order to encompass a larger picture.

It's always a sad moment because that's when your friend looks up at you with wide, eager eyes and asks «So what did you think of my favorite book in the whole universe, the one I kindly lent you for months on end, depriving myself and other readers of its powerful words so you could enjoy them?»

Hundreds of authors have signed up to lend their support, not in terms of publicity or book signings, but just by volunteering on what will hopefully prove to be a profitable day for these small business owners.

And people are also adding tags / collections / bookshelves to their online book sharing profiles to let their friends know what books they have availalble to lend.

Those who wish to lend are looking for a legal way to do what they've been doing with physical books.

Consider sharing poetry books by some of Woodson's poet influences — for example, Honey, I Love, by Eloise Greenfield; The Dream Keeper, by Langston Hughes; Hip Hop Speaks to Children, collected by Nikki Giovanni; Amazing Faces, edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins; Lend a Hand, by John Frank; This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort, edited by Georgia Heard; or What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings, by Joyce Sidman.

You know what, there are already lending libraries for books.

What authors might be confused about in regards to this newest lending market in Japan is that their books are still only available in English, so the risk of losing royalties by putting their titles in the Select program might actually be a little higher than if they were not already enrolled.

You can share what you're reading on Twitter and Facebook, plus lend books to other friends with Nook readers or apps.

The whole thing seems to be a rip off as far as the author is concerned — but here I hear myself asking what is the difference if I lend a hard copy book to a friend or take one out from the library?

Best selling author Neil Gaiman was quoted in a video interview earlier this year, who came to the conclusion that what piracy really amounted to what was «people lending books ``, he said.

Let's see if newspapers and the big blogs keep drumming up a Nook LendMe feature that is a hollow shell of what actual lending of books is.

But if people are going to get into the regular practice of ebook lending, they will want to be able to lend or borrow as many books as possible, without regard to what price it was at when they acquired it.

Now, both Kindle and Nook have a lending feature that's a mockery of what lending means to books.

Another benefit is a potentially huge saving in the cost of actually making a loan (in New Zealand, it costs about $ 2.50 to lend a printed book, or * five times * what's spent on the book itself).

What is quite remarkable is that lots of people are very excited about the opportunity to allow people to lend books to each other.

From My Stuff, you can peruse your files through a decidedly non-Android-like file viewer, see what's archived online, and view the books that you can lend.

There are a few things you'll probably need for lending — a list of books you've bought that are lendable with the ones you've already read marked out, a list of email addresses of friends and family (the people you would usually recommend books to), some rough sheet or document to list what you've lent and when you get it back, a document that lists which books are most suited to whom since you can only lend a book once.

Not sure what charm and magic B&N used to get this feature included but now Publishers have undermined one of the big advantages of ebooks — They've added back book lending.

They were doing fine without lending but by reminding them about lending by adding this limited feature Kindle and Nook have opened a Pandora's Box of «Why can't my ebook do what a physical book can?».

New to the Nook Color is the ability to see what books your friends own that are available for lending.

The things you'd expect in an e-reader — Wi - Fi, an online book store, the ability to mark - up what you read with notes — are paired with things that haven't yet become the standard, such as a touch screen, a color navigation display and way to lend e-books to friends.

None of the «Big Six» publishers are yet on board with what is rumored to be the start of Amazon's «Netflix for books» lending program for books.

For those who might be unfamiliar with the Overdrive book lending system, it is essentially to institutionalized eBook lending what the Kindle is to eBook reading.

It being a short read, I lent her my copy of Moyne's book and asked what she thought.

Just as we suggest booking your tour for early in your vacation, booking your tour for earlier in the day lends you more flexibility to explore what you see from the air on land following the tour.

I don't write letters to politicians and lend people books and all that because it's political, though — I do it because I sincerely, down in my bones, think that doing what I can to help slow AGW is the right thing to do.

; — RRB - What I will often do with books I have purchased and read is try to find someone to lend them to.

Ask them about what they're working on and find ways to lend a hand — invite a contact to an interesting networking event, pass on the phone number of that reliable contractor or genius dermatologist, or just send a book or article about a topic of interest.

The osteo enthused with Sprog 1 about what a great book it was and lent it to her until my next visit.