He spent time with his grandchildren and travelled, and, having been an avid sailor all his life, he had just finished writing a book on nineteenth-century naval mapmaking.
"Paper might be the most consumer sensitive of all because it's used in packaging - and packaging is used for everything, " said Minter, who has just finished writing a book about the globalization of the waste and recycling industry.
What will be lost, or at least diminished, is the sense of a book as a finished and complete object, a self-contained work of art.
Martin's fantasy novel "A Dance With Dragons" finished the book, and spent an average of 20 hours reading it, a relatively fast read for a 1, 040-page novel.
What happened was, so Goblet of Fire, I was really in quite a state by the time that book was finished, and I mean at that point I really did feel a lot of things came together with Goblet of Fire.
Publisher Tim Sanders of Net Minds persuaded him to write a book linked to Jobs, even though Bushnell had already finished writing a science fiction novel about a video game hatched through nanotechnology in 2071.
By the time the machine finished downloading and installing, I had picked up a book.
And when the book was finished, Steve asked for a pre-release copy, which I duly sent.
I've finished the first book and put it aside for a few months - to see with fresh eyes whether it's worth something or I need to throw it in the waste basket.
Ms. Schow wrote a book about her experience, "Finished Being Fat, " published earlier this month.
Most writers take a breather between books, but when he finished one book he always started immediately on another book.
Once the book was finished, I spent the better part of a year revising it.
Since Burr finished research on his book, Turin has become chief scientist at Flexitral , a new privately held company in Chantilly, Va.
Since Burr finished research on his book, Turin has become chief scientist at Flexitral , a new privately held company in Chantilly, Virginia, where he is concocting fragrance and flavor molecules.
They have just finished several years of research on primary materials - what we'll call stuff - and put it in a book, Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open, free to download and fascinating for umpteen reasons.
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Though she wanted to make herself interesting to the old man by reading serious books, she never finished what she began, lapsing instead into daydreams or turning to old fashion magazines that she bought from a secondhand-book stall.
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