There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

世上并没有人人必读的书，但有必须在某一时间，必须在某一地点，必须在某种环境之中，必须在某一时代方可以读的书。

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Only a small fraction of the population was literate, but the production of books grew at an extraordinary speed.

只有一小部分人识字，但书籍的产量却以惊人的速度增长。

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Wheatley may have been the first, but she was not the only slave to write books during the growing days of the Republic.

惠特莉可能是第一个，但她并不是共和国发展时期唯一一个写书的奴隶。

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But e-books can act more like computer software licensed only to the user who buys them.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Her best guess is that some schools with a lot of technology will be the first to use them, but only in addition to their traditional books.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

And we have still the concerns about the text books, which continue to be disseminated not only in Saudi Arabia, but around the world to madrassas,for example, which still contain things that we consider beyond the pale."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

What would it be like to explore this New World, not only in books but on the ground?

NPR: Unearthing History in 'A Voyage Long and Strange'

Too often, the ability to work flexibly is a perk, an extra, something for high fliers that has to be earned, or something that's on the books, but only approved in special cases.

CNN: Bravo to Sheryl Sandberg for leaving work at 5:30

As I noted in my original piece, the issue that concerns me is not about Google digitising the world's books, but about only Google doing so.

BBC: Turning the page on Google books