Without due diligence, though, "bad books just sort of sift in, like dust, " said Mr. McMurtry, who purges his collection at least once a year.
On the home front, a house-cleaning robot is much desired, as is a searching contraption that would find lost keys and books--sort of like Google, but for the physical world.
Through thousands of pages of newspaper columns, a novel, a couple of history books and a sort-of memoir runs a thread of ideas that make Mr Johnson an unlikely favourite for grassroots conservatives.
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On the home front, a house-cleaning robot is much desired, as is a searching contraption that would find lost keys and books--sort of like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), but for the physical world.
One of their experiments, for example, would suggest that most would hesitate to borrow books from their neighbors for this sort of cheating, or at least not more than a few books.
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There's all kinds of corporate-lawyer idiocy at play here: MobileRead was just linking out to another site hosting the script, which can't actually be used to break Kindle DRM, and the only people using it are the people who want to buy more books -- not exactly the sort of customers you'd want to piss off.
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Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.
Still, it was an annual rite of passage, sort of like old fashioned telephone books.
Distribution of that sort has traditionally been more difficult with books, since it is harder to print and disseminate thick wads of paper than it is to burn discs or download video files.
Default applications include Public Library, Browser, Periodicals (which we sort of wish was grouped in with the books), Notes, Dictionary, Handwriting, Text Memo, Pictures, Settings, Evernote Setup and Facebook Setup.
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Both books under review are to some degree dirges for the sort of Jew who could be recognised not from overt signs of religious observance but from mannerisms, tastes, affiliations and habits of mind.
Breeders and would-be breeders pored over stud books while members of the public turned up to investigate what sort of dog would best fit into their family.
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Ms. PROSE: Well, yeah, and I also think - I mean this sounds like a sort of slightly nutty thing to say - but I also think that certain books just kind of pop into your hands at the moment you need to write - to read them.
"It's important for one reason to make them more confident and also to enhance their vocabulary and their language, because as an adult you can read books that are a little more difficult or challenging and they become familiar with the text and that sort of literature, " he said.
So while an algorithm might be able to sort out a collection of quality content like feature films, or music released by a label, or books distributed by a publisher, the shear volume of self-published books, or self-recorded music, makes the algorithmic approach less and less successful.
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