After swearing that I preferred paper books, I now read e-books on my Kindle and on my iPad.
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"I have 10 books I'm working on, and one of them is dealing with the end of crime, " he told the Chronicle of Higher Education after taking the job.
Where are all the things I learned, the books I read, the poems I memorized?
When I had the opportunity to write books, I could now combine the skills I had cultivated as a researcher, to write books that are different and play to my own strengths.
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Additionally, I author books, ebooks, and write pieces several times a week here for Forbes .
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But when I read the English books, I found, oh it is different.
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And I keep thinking why haven't I learned one single thing from all these books I've written?
Before I learned English, everything I learnt from Chinese books, and I thought oh this is what they say.
And then of course, there is the fact that if you buy a book in the real world, it's going to sit around making you feel guilty all the time, but now I can buy as many books as I want, and they go on my device, and I never have to think about them again.
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For years I have been receiving e-mail from Amazon sharing that I might be interested in a specific book because of the books I have purchased in the past.
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These food media outlets include this column, the many airline in-flight magazines I write for, and the consumer magazines newspapers and guide books I regularly contribute to (everything from Outside to Cigar Aficionado, where I am the Contributing Travel Editor).
I'm not going to make huge savings, but if I buy a few books at a time I'll break even.
People have often asked me how I find the time to write books when I have a business to run, clients to serve, and a personal life to have.
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I'm a bright enough guy, but all the great books I'll ever read I read in college and graduate school, and my musical tastes are straight down the middle: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Mostly Mozart, the Brandenburgs, a little cool jazz, a few show tunes.
Imagine my shock when I arrived in England bursting with all that knowledge gleaned from the books I had read and from a few well-behaved British tourists I had met in my town, only to be confronted by the screaming headlines of the tabloids and pictures of scantily-clad models baring most of their assets.
Recently, I pulled one of the books out because I was thinking about that second editorial.
With that idea in mind, I recommend two books about the essential role of price in capitalism: Lessons from a Road Warrior: How I fell off a horse, earned 15 million air miles, got sand in my shoes and learned how to invest by John Rutledge and The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russell Roberts.
You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
While I'm ambivalent about books on tablets, I'm all for electronic cookbooks and apps.
When I met with the others in New York to discuss these books, I was in awe of the assembled talent.
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When I was a kid I read adventure books, and assumed life was an adventure.
To be honest, as much as I do enjoy books like those comprising George R.
"I was seeing books out there like Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office, " says Kahlon, 34.
It has always been among the first books I pack when I move.
Some of the things that are important to me are the books I've read and the movies I've watched.
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But suddenly I saw that books could work on this entirely different level.
Of all the many articles and books I have read on resilience, she nails it better than any other.
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