The object of this book is food, but the subject really is my relationship with my mother.

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The owner of a copyrighted object (a book, for example) controls that new product before it is first distributed (to a consumer, bookstore, library, Amazon etc.).

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The book became a cult object.

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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.

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Magazines have traditionally thought of themselves as kind of a locked book, of a complete, discreet object.

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The UI supports a rich set of services, including phone calls, text messaging with vocal read-out, navigation, object recognition, social network services, remote assistance, audio-book reading, and other leisure and entertainment offerings.

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