Today, the card is used mostly to check out library books and get into leisure centres.
Those dimes from the keyword ads pay for Google's project to put millions of library books online.
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Norvig's group is pursuing video search and personalized search, as well as a program to index data from library books and photos.
More important are cuddles, library books and educational outings, which are cheap.
The spokesman said the city expected the program would continue on under the leadership of the New York City Imagination Library Books-from-Birth Foundation, which took it over last fall.
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Google has pledged not to show advertising next to the pages of library books, but the company does sell advertising alongside search results that lead to books obtained from publishers.
He directed set designer Jeannine Oppewall ("L.A. Confidential") to create the town of Pleasantville, blank library books and all, from her memory of the late 1950s, rather than from extensive research.
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When professionals dominate all complex subjects, from the forecasting of markets to the cataloguing of library books, perhaps it is too much to hope that public policy can ever be the province of the amateur.
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The concierge ordered floral arrangements for centerpieces, decorated the restaurant with golf-themed library books, commissioned a cake (topped with a picture of the student as a child) and created bookmark party favors with yet more childhood photos.
But we're fixing this by extending our Whispersync technology to library books, so your notes, highlights and bookmarks are always backed up and available the next time you check out the book or if you decide to buy the book.
Almost 60% of Europeans believe cash is the dirtiest item they come into contact with, ahead of escalator handrails, buttons on payment terminals and library books, according to a survey of 1, 000 people released on March 25 by Mastercard.
This time in full sunshine, he made direct eye contact as I marched by with my rucksack full of library books, wearing a blazing white cardigan over a dark denim jumpsuit and huge platforms putting me right at his eye level.
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I'll tell you what I think that's a sign of a candidate who's deeply rattled as he has every right to be, I mean I'm sorry but you know policies, you can't just pull them off, off the shelf like library books and put them back a couple of weeks later.
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Pew asked people who don't already borrow library e-books whether they might avail themselves of library programs that would prepare them for using e-books.
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"I'm returning from the boxing ring with cuts and they're returning from the library with books!"
Is there a core library of books that should be distributed across the business?
On the old man's pale, plump back was a painted library of books.
Since I write a fair amount on wines and spirits, and especially whiskies, I have amassed a decent library of books on these subjects for reference.
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References to people and events in songs have me searching at the library through books and documentaries where I've discovered inspiring people who were never mentioned in my all-white schools.
Now, with customers scanning books themselves, the library is processing more books than ever while shaving 15 percent from staff hours by using fewer part-time workers.
His action is a digital version of someone who has a valid library card, but borrows more books than he should from a public library, the only conceivable distinction being that a hardcover over-borrower denies books to other borrowers.
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Each of us has a laptop and an iPhone, and our Kindles house our library and travel books.
For my family, this means less trips to the library and new books always and instantly at our fingertips.
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Each store has a lounge with a library, and on the library shelves are books about watches and watchmaking.
So, too, is Watt's library of scientific books, written in six languages (all of which Watt could read) and representing the apex of scientific thought at the time.
Previously, Humble School's library contained mostly books donated from America.
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.
But, interestingly, slightly more library e-books borrowers told Pew that when they want to find an e-book, the first place they look is an online bookstore -- not the library.
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It reminded her of the glass that was broken in the bombing, that stuck in the sides of the survivor tree, and that made its way between the pages of many of the library's books.
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