But genes are rather like books in a library--not all of them are read.
New e-reading services, which allow readers to purchase and store books in a digital library and read them on different devices, have some of the most sophisticated reader tracking software.
Looted by the Russian army in 1945, the books languished in a dusty library in Georgia before they were returned to the family in the mid-1990s.
They could get a job learning from a plumber or a machinist, or apprenticing to a furniture maker or just sitting in the library with a big stack of books and a notepad.
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One set of video footage appears to show protesters setting fire to a library of rare books in central Cairo during clashes in mid-December that left 17 civilians dead.
Today, it offers nearly 10, 000 books and other media in a completely renovated, colourful and attractive library room to a target group many members of which are not used to reading regularly.
Pew also found that 12% of all Americans age 16 and older who read e-books have borrowed an e-book from a library in the past year -- and they're generally pretty happy with the experience.
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Acer LumiRead comes with 6-inch display, it's only few millimeters thick and permits to carry an entire library of up to 1, 500 books in just a handful of grams.
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Some library patrons reported waiting lists for popular e-books, or that the library e-book wasn't offered in a format compatible with their device.
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Pause in the library to check out the books the average prisoner read at a rate of 75 to 100 per year - though none of the books could have references to crime, violence or sex.
In 2005, Microsoft announced that it would spend two and a half million dollars to scan a hundred thousand out-of-copyright books in the collection of the British Library.
Even while the library represents an enormous investment in careful archiving of print books, it also includes a nod to the paperless future: a well-outfitted preservation and digitization laboratory that librarians will use to scan in books, maps, manuscripts and photographs.
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The new Kobo Wireless eReader allows consumers to browse more than 1.5 million books in the Borders eBook store and update their digital library wirelessly, directly from the eReader device, a smartphone or the Borders Desktop Application.
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We launched a project for a struggling school in Philadelphia at Feltonville Intermediate, whose library had shelves, but no books.
When I was doing doctoral research in the late 1980s, the University of Jordan housed a massive collection of books in what was then called the "forbidden room" of the school's library.
This is high season for the library, which was established in 1934 with the express aim of assembling a trove of reference books "treating all recognized breeds and everything in which the dog is concerned, " in the words of the library's founders.
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