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How about a novel concept–it’s not so innovative when you come to think about it–how about getting lost in a good book ?! That’s my favorite regardless of age. Like a magic carpet, a book can allow you to travel anywhere across the globe …

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Greenversations Green Books for Kids

But not for the same kind of discount that its other e- books deliver to readers. According to a July 10, 2009, story from the Wall Street Journal, while Kindle ordinarily significantly discounts an e- book from its hardcover price (e.g., …

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Legal Writing Prof Blog: Kindle law books go for a higher price

I usually don’t post this sort of thing, but Archipelago Books has been doing amazing work, and it’s hard to contemplate a literature-in-translation scene without their publications. Simply put: they’re one of a handful of …

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Conversational Reading: Archipelago Books Could Use Your Help

The terms of the UW-Madison and Texas Google Books agreements reportedly follow along the lines of the University of Michigan’s amended Google Books agreement [text] and are contingent upon the Google Books settlement agreement being …

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Law Librarian Blog: Wisconsin-Madison and Texas Amend Google Books …

“The book , Everything You Need to Know About the Goth Scene, is obviously designed for scared parents who are concerned that their children might be “goth”, with helpful hints that their children might listen to a band called “The Cure“ …

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That's So Goth! « Awful Library Books

Since McCullough’s appeal as a historian and writer is so widespread, it is a certainty that more Americans will read this book than were alive in 1776. [Ed

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Classic review: 1776 | csmonitor.com

In his 1979 novel Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore (If on a winter’s night a traveler), Italian writer Italo Calvino imagines a character, Lotaria, who uses an “electronic brain” to read her books .

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Inside Google Books: Explore a book in 10 seconds

Something odd happened after my last blog about my ‘best books ‘ on philanthropy. An American academic (Angie Eikenberry, whose work I admire) criticised my taste for being too sugar-coated.

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Sugar-coated or cynical: more books about philanthropy | Kent …

These books look great… I have to find out more about them.

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wide open spaces – wide open spaces – more books on food

With each of these books I remember something different–a scene, a character, a concept, or the way it made me feel in that moment. With most, I can remember where I was when I first read it, the same way I associate certain songs with …

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At long last a LiveJournal by Jeri Smith-Ready – Forever books …