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It's not too difficult, but is still considerably more complicated than walking into the library and pulling a book off the shelf.
Your local health department, public library, telephone book and the Internet also may be good sources for finding a support group in your area.
Plaintiff also alleges that she was questioned about her badge when she checked out a library book, and that she was unable to vote for the homecoming king and queen.
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She turned off the TV, sent Carson and his brother to the library and made them write weekly book reports.
To take advantage of large and extra large, high-resolution Android tablet screens, NOOK for Android now offers customers an optimized library grid view and reading experience with enhanced book margins and line spacing, as well as an improved shopping experience and more.
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Customers can check out a Kindle book from their local library and start reading on any generation Kindle device or free Kindle app for Android, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry or Windows Phone, as well as in their web browser with Kindle Cloud Reader.
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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Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution is an engrossing book and I think a necessary addition to the library of any history of science buff.
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Of the six largest publishers in the U.S., only two have full-fledged library e-book lending programs: HarperCollins and Random House.
In the library, where weekly workshops, book clubs and talks are held, is a selection of beautiful Taschen coffee table books and must-reads including Vogue creative director Grace Coddington's autobiography.
Customers will use their local library's website to search for and select a book to borrow.
The central library runs book clubs for home-schooled children and teenagers, which are well-attended.
The great poet and author Maya Angelou didn't discover poetry until her mentor took her to the tiny library at her school and challenged her to read every book in the room.
Penguin, for instance, is embarking on its library lending pilot with e-book distributor (and German industrial giant) 3M, some say because it may not want to do business with OverDrive.
Aside from being a thoroughly civilized place in which to enjoy a good book, the library contains a computer terminal and large glass jars of freshly baked cookies.
In order to create a unique taste, Jared Brown went through a raft of historical recipes from the 1, 000-drinks-book library at his home in Gloucestershire, and started experimenting with ingredients such as Italian orris root and Chinese cassia bark.
Modernise library services to expand the provision of superfast broadband and e-book lending.
Before libraries and publishers can come together and agree how to solve the problem of library e-book lending, they probably will have to understand each other.
Offering the broadest library of comic book content from the top 75 publishers, and including independent creators as well, comiXology will not stop until everyone on the face of the planet has become a comic book fan.
Age 16: Some friend gets him library copy of book titled A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics and was a collection of 5000 theorems.
That looks to be on the tentative mend, as the publisher and 3M have together cut deals with the Brooklyn Public Library and New York Public Library to bring Penguin's e-book catalog back as part of a test program.
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On a recent visit, I enjoyed drinks and snacks in the low-lit, book-lined Library Room.
But in the world of big-and small-money map theft, it's more like taking candy from a baby--or in this case, a library: Simply walk in, slice 'em out of a book and walk out.
Imagine we wanted to continue with this glorious new e-book technology but at the same time wanted to preserve the library and the bookshop?
Both the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are awarded annually to a book for young people by Cilip: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
It has written to parents to outline the concerns raised and ask them whether they would prefer to pay for a new library book instead of the sweets.
We publish a magazine on education and health, support a public library in Herat and recently began promoting the revival of culture in Herat by publishing a book of historical places and holding classes of traditional classes in the restored Citadel.
When I was 9, I used to huddle in the back of the library with my friend Leanne, and we'd turn the 1991 edition of the Guinness book's pages with purple hands sticky from raspberry Laffy Taffy.
He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat with a book taken from the library, copied all its pages on the Xerox machine, and sat at his desk reading what looked to passersby like the honest pages of business.
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