doubt that simply picking up a book could change a life. Like many avid readers, I have had the experience of falling in love with a book. But, I confess here, I have not been faithful to my loves. After the first delight of discovery, I have strayed in search of other books that would engage, challenge, tantalize, take my breath away and leave me wanting more. My affairs with books have been passionate and many. And I am the better for my unfaithfulness to a singe book or any one author. This
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and that digital textbooks are cheaper than print textbook. “…in 2006, the U.S. book industry consumed approximately 30 million trees and had a carbon footprint equivalent to 12.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or 8.85 pounds per book sold.” (Green Press Initiative and the Book Industry Study Group. 2008) Paper books can be recycled, though at this point not much data is available regarding the percentage of books that are recycled at the end of their useful life. “81 percent of K-12 teachers
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Problem and Concern If you were told by someone that you cannot read a certain book, you would ultimately want to read the book in spite of the person who had told you that you could not. However, what if you had no idea someone was preventing you from reading a certain book, and because of them you would never be exposed to the ideas that are presented in this book? This idea is not something that people consider as they go through the syllabus for their English class, or browse through their local
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Knowledge is power Somewhere in the corner of your house a hard-bound leather book hopefully awaits that someday it will be remembered by someone, picked off its dust, cleaned and read with joy. This book never sees the light of the day and is usually forgotten or ends up being used as a coffee stand or a paper weight. We all have that one book at home which is read once and forgotten by you for the rest of your life and then sadly ends up at a rag picker’s bag, devalued, torn and wasted of the
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Psychology 2301 November 7th 2013 Book Report Happiness is an inside job by John Powell “Why am I afraid to tell you who I am? I am afraid to tell you who I am, because if I tell you who I am, you may not life who I am, and it’s all that I have...” (John Powell). This author influences many teenagers in his books that there is a common sense to approach happiness. Many people claim happiness comes to anyone, but Powell gets to inform the reader in many of his books that everyone is within the
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buy a book. Further many socio- cultural factors can affect the book selling such as changes in demographics and age distribution during the last 5 years. People have started to buy e- books from amazon etc. and this depicts that the life style and the conditions of people have changed. Readers are penetrating to comfortable ways of buying books from the internet. It is said in the case study that people are INCREASINGLY buying books ELSEWHERE. This elsewhere is referred to online e books sellers
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PAPER BASED BOOKS V/S E-BOOKS Reading is a way through which languages are acquired. It helps in communicating as well as sharing one’s views on a particular subject. But, the main question here is, what means should be used to read? There are two school of thoughts; the first favors paper based books, while the other favors e-books. The first school of thought favors reading paper based books. Firstly, it says that reading paper based books is more superior to screens. Secondly, books are single
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addicts always carry big heavy sack. I’m one of this people. I enjoy reading so much that I feel free to tag at least one book along with me to everywhere. However, the more interesting the book is, the heavier I have to carry. Ten years ago, I had a travel, long-hours, flights trip with several transits, and my carry-on didn’t carry any thing but a series of three thick books. I had been very excited to have enough time to finish this story without my annoyed children. The first flight was very enjoyable
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Leviticus The book of Job and the Poem of a Righteous Sufferer both have a similar storyline and address the issues of suffering (more specifically, undeserved suffering). Both protagonists go through great sufferings, and turn to their God(s) in bewilderment as to why. They both felt their suffering was underserved and questioned their God(s) in search of understanding. The major difference between the stories is the deities. Wherein the Poem the protagonist believed in many Gods, in the book of Job,
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my academic career and made me love this never-ending assignment, reading. When I was scavenging for books to meet my AR goal, a goal that is a set amount of points, made by your teacher, that you have to grasp by the end of the marking term, I was getting frustrated. Having been looking for a good genre for ages, my teacher, Mrs. Usher, asked me if I needed help. Little did I know that the book that she was about to pick would change my antipathy for reading. It was just
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