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Inmates translate books to Braille for blind kids (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
PERU, Ind. - Prison inmates are learning Braille so they can translate printed school books for children at the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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Is a Kindle to books as an iPod is to tunes? (San Francisco Chronicle)
Electronic books have been available in some form for a couple of decades, but the 7-month-old Amazon Kindle is flashing the publishing industry its clearest peek at the future of reading - even if analysts say the much-hyped e-reading device won't...
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The Boy Who Loved Books, By John Sutherland (Independent)
John Sutherland has had a substantial career as an academic writing about books. This touching, and in places extremely funny memoir, shows how his leap into literature was far from straightforward.
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Inmates translate books to Braille for blind kids (FOX 19 Cincinnati)
PERU, Ind. (AP) - Inmates at the Miami Correctional Facility are learning Braille so they can translate printed school books for children at the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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Rows of books crowding your home? Here are six new ways to display and decorate with books: (San Jose Mercury News)
• Form over function: Flea markets and garage sales are repositories of old books and encyclopedia sets that can be used to decorate, according to Marie Proeller Hueston, author of "Decorating with Books.
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Inmates translate books to Braille for blind kids (WLFI Lafayette)
Associated Press - July 5, 2008 2:34 PM ET PERU, Ind. (AP) - Inmates at the Miami Correctional Facility are learning Braille so they can translate printed school books for children at the...
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Larry McMurtry's 'Books': rambling, disorganized, dull (Austin American-Statesman)
In his new memoir "Books" — an account of his more than 50-year career as a "bookman" — Larry McMurtry states that "the antiquarian book trade is an anecdotal culture." To wit, I start thusly: In my 20s, I spent a summer working for an antiquarian book-seller.
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Ellensburg remembered in books (Daily Record)
ELLENSBURG — Memories of growing up in Ellensburg were recorded by at least two people in illustrated books. In her 1969 book "Ah Kittitas!" Edna Fleming wrote of her experiences growing up around the turn of the century.
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How good the summer's hot books actually are (Detroit Free Press)
The New York Times best-seller list -- the preeminent arbiter of what we're reading, devised through trade-secret methodology -- lately has featured an unusually wide-ranging selection of titles. So with summer reading in mind, here's my take on the top five books in each category on the Times' hardcover best-seller list.
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Mother, daughter collect books for JP School (Medfield Press)
Kimberly Knowles, 14, and her mother Marcia were able to fit 1,657 donated books in their car for their trip up to Jamaica Plain Monday - but just barely.
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