The British Library has since improved its security as a result of this case, with a "massive" increase in its CCTV cameras, and in the number of staff who walk around the library's reading room floor.
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.
For over two years, Amazon has been building and introducing a wide selection of free "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" Kindle apps for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry and Android-based devices that let customers read and sync their reading library, bookmarks, notes, and highlights with the device or platform of their choice.
The home screen looks like standard Android, save for some tweaks, including large book icons and a bar at the bottom with links to the Kobo Shop, your current reading selection, the library, a full app list and the so-called Reading Life social feature.
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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Newcastle's arching Tyne Bridge, Liverpool's modernist Philharmonic Hall and the classical rotunda of Manchester's central library, which held 300 readers in what was then the country's biggest reading room outside the British Library in London, were all products of the civic and, in some cases, philanthropic determination of local leaders.
Voices travel up from the ground floor in a smokestack effect and ricochet around the preserved glazed-white brick walls. (The "new" library prefers buzz over the code of silence of the old library.) How different from the older sections of the library where, for instance, one reading room has restored its carved plaster ceiling reproducing Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence.
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All museums and libraries are free, citizens can borrow up to 200 books by the Internet, while migrant workers can spend their lunch hours reading in the library without charge.
In the summer of 1983, Mr Dodge, who was once arrested for cutting down telephone poles, was reading in a Maine library when he found an 1825 copy of the Constitution.
The intimate library area is better suited to individual reading.
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Below this are links to your Library, the Store and Kobo's Reading Life social network.
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Speaking at the inaugural Reading Agency Lecture at the British Library, Winterson suggested the cost could be met by Google, Amazon and Starbucks.
Waiting is part of the deal: You can catch up on your reading from the in-shop library of tabloids and less than high-brow magazines.
The eReader also supports EPUB and PDF documents, so customers can enjoy the option of borrowing and reading free eBooks from their local library.
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If you could go back to the Dixon, Illinois, of 1922, you'd find a boy of 11, reading adventure stories at the public library or running with his brother, Neil, along Rock River, and coming home to a little house on Hennepin Avenue.
Like the humble starfish that preserves entire marine ecosystems by eating mussels, the American public library is the keystone species in the ecosystem of reading.
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The reading room concept originally came from the New York Public Library, during the Depression.
She described Italian prisons as "pretty swell", with a library, a television in her room, a bathroom and a reading lamp.
Today, it offers nearly 10, 000 books and other media in a completely renovated, colourful and attractive library room to a target group many members of which are not used to reading regularly.
Once digitised, these unique items will be available for full text search, download and reading through Google Books, as well as being searchable through the Library's website and stored in perpetuity within the Library's digital archive.
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Over 70 years Berenson built a library of 34, 000 books, but tells us not to waste much time reading about pictures instead of looking at them.
He was already passionate about history, often reading history books under the magnolia tree in front of Columbia's public library.
New e-reading services, which allow readers to purchase and store books in a digital library and read them on different devices, have some of the most sophisticated reader tracking software.
When Beasla was a child, her grandfather would spend hours reading to her and other children in the kids' section of the local library, sitting on the ground or hunched on a tiny bench.
For kids who develop a love for reading, there is another benefit that is hard to quantify: a seemingly endless library.
Though Whitman loved reading, he was not a bookish man, and he did not possess a large library.
Barbara Band, vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, said the report showed the importance of "guiding children to the right reading".
We have very, very renowned American writers who will be reading -- there are panel discussions -- on the Capitol grounds and in the Library of Congress building itself.
It seems to serve a different purpose now, a couple of older gentlemen shuffling in and out of the library during the three hours we spend there, each staying quiet, seated alone at a small table, reading novels and history books from off the shelves.
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