This one held mostly old books, books that had not been opened for years.
That if it engages kids it is because it is more exciting and bright than tired, old books.
So in 1974 Gerda Koontz quit her job and started negotiating repurchase prices for 40 of his old books.
ReCaptcha takes a new approach: The project scans and digitizes thousands of pages of real-world text, including old books and the archives of TheNew York Times.
Regular makeovers every 15 years or so -- which can extend to rewriting the old books -- have sustained her popularity with generations of young readers.
ReCaptcha takes a new approach: The project scans and digitizes thousands of pages of real-world text, including old books and the archives of The New York Times.
The RE-CAPTCHA security exercises at the bottom of transaction or comment pages actually are a crowd labor means of converting words from old books and documents into text.
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Would this outweigh the cost of digitizing the old books?
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Most of the day, the mother sat in her room and read old books, while Aryeh Zelnik listened to the radio in his room and built airplanes out of light wood.
Since then he has resold 20 titles in his stockpile to his publishers, insisting that if they wanted his next blockbuster-to-be, they had to buy a few old books from his backlist, as well.
On return visits he started collecting old cigar molds (he now owns 200) and old books, pamphlets and dissertations, going door to door in Havana to buy them up--until word spread of the crazy gringo and prices shot up.
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But even as people dig out their old books about that concatenation of accident, stupidity and miscommunication that caused the Great Depression, I want to throw in another thought: it could be worse than the 1930s if we let it happen.
Given that many philosophers saw critical theory as a way for English professors to do philosophy really badly, it should not come as a surprise to find that some with a keen understanding of neuroscience are deeply skeptical of this attempt to say something new about old books.
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Expect to see everything from old medical books and medicine to a replica of an old pharmacy store, as well an exhibitions on the history of aspirin, discovered by French chemist Charles Frederic Gerhardt in 1853, and apothecary, the art of pharmacy and medical treatment that dates back to 2600 BC.
Fox, 25, was signed by Simon Grayson in January 2006 for Blackpool after over two years on the Old Trafford books.
Still, it was an annual rite of passage, sort of like old fashioned telephone books.
Google has actually been using reCAPTCHA with an ulterior motive: crowdsourcing the digitization of old newspapers and books.
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Actually, now that we think of it, we're probably better off with our old fashioned print books after all.
You sense that when you hear a twelve-year-old describe the books.
As it happens, we were greeted with a quote from Thoreau, making us wonder what the naturalist might have thought about these newfangled reading devices edging out old-fashioned books.
SmartBook represents a breakthrough achievement in reading, as it breaks the centuries-old tradition of books as linear experiences that presume to be read in their entirety, and in a pre-defined sequence, in order to be understood.
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Though she wanted to make herself interesting to the old man by reading serious books, she never finished what she began, lapsing instead into daydreams or turning to old fashion magazines that she bought from a secondhand-book stall.
But if earlier generations were paragons of good behaviour, why do so many old children's books praise naughtiness?
There is some old furniture, yellowing books and files, and personal effects items of sentimental value if they had belonged to a favourite aunt, perhaps.
Mindful of the variety of interests different readers will take in South Africa's past, publishers have come out with a range of Boer war books, old and new.
The publishing monolith made his fortunes in the pages of ye old paper-based books, but it seems that he'll be paying off future mortgages with something else entirely.
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