News tagged with books
New Kindle Touch is an impressive e-reader
When it comes to reading digital books, tablets are all the rage. But there's a lot to like about simple e-readers, which over the past year have become both a lot cheaper and a lot less clunky.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else
If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Amazon planning first real-world shop: report
Online retail titan Amazon will open its first real-world shop in just a few months, according to a blog devoted to news about electronic readers such as the popular Kindle.
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Children can learn arithmetic faster and better
During the first two years of primary education children can learn to do arithmetic faster and better with the help of a more systematically structured educational programme. For older children, teaching arithmetic with the ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 06, 2012 |
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3Qs: An Apple for the teacher - and student
Last week Apple announced two new eReader platforms – iBooks and iAuthor – that the electronics giant hopes will modernize learning and “reinvent textbooks.” Northeastern University news ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Guinness World Record: DESY's X-ray laser FLASH shoots fastest movie
It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg, Germany.
Jan 25, 2012 |
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New library e-catalogs offer expanded selection
(AP) -- Library users searching for e-books will soon get to look through a much bigger catalog and help decide what their local branch might carry.
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Analyst: Apple sold more than 350,000 e-textbooks in 3 days
Apple's foray into the e-textbook business started off with a bang, according to a Monday report: The company sold more than 350,000 textbooks through its new version of iBooks in its first three days of availability, an a ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks (Update)
Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Technology, costs, lack of appeal slow e-textbook adoption
Textbooks are often a luxury for college senior Vatell Martin. The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups and professors' lectures. "It's not that I didn't want to buy," ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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New smart e-book system more convenient than paper-based books
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced today that its research team headed by Professor Howon Lee from the IT Convergence Research Institute has developed a technology that will ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Barnes & Noble falls on guidance cut, Nook review
(AP) -- Barnes & Noble is considering options for its quickly growing but expensive Nook e-book reading business, its latest attempt to regain profitability as the publishing industry adapts to the rising ...
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Book on Richard Feynman nets honors for Arizona State professor
"Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science," ASU Foundation Professor and Director of the Origins Project Lawrence M. Krauss' recent book about a legendary and sometimes very public modern physicist, has been chosen ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's super hero sexism
As parents do their final holiday shopping, comic books, and their related superhero-themed toys and children's gear, continue to be popular. From Batman rain boots and Legos, to paperback books about Wonder Woman, many stores ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Star images helping to save Vatican books
(PhysOrg.com) -- Antique books in the Vatican Library are being digitised to preserve them for future generations using a technique developed through ESA to store satellite images of the sky.
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Book
A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an e-book.
Books may also refer to a literature work, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or newspapers. The body of all written works including books is literature.
In novels, a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, etc).
A lover of books is usually referred to as a bibliophile, a bibliophilist, or a philobiblist, or, more informally, a bookworm.
A store where books are bought and sold is a bookstore or bookshop. Books can also be borrowed from libraries.
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