Thursday 31 May 2007
Top Ten Books
In a survey carried out by www.worldbookday.com the top ten books voted for were as follows, number one Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austin, second Lord of the Rings-JRR Tolkien, third Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte, fourth Harry Potter books-JK Rowling, fifth To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee, sixth The Bible, seventh Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte, eighth 1984-George Orwell, ninth His Dark Materials-Phillip Pullman and tenth Great Expectations-Charles Darwin. Just goes to show the oldies are the best.
Tuesday 29 May 2007
What are EBooks
An alternative to buying a real book made of paper which you buy from a bookshop would be to buy a book that is downloaded from the internet, it is called an ebook.
There are lots of places on the internet that these ebooks can be downloaded, some of them are free.
If you have not the space for real books in your house or do not want the real book a book on your computer would be ideal.
There are lots of places on the internet that these ebooks can be downloaded, some of them are free.
If you have not the space for real books in your house or do not want the real book a book on your computer would be ideal.
Monday 28 May 2007
What is an Encyclopedia?
A comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically
Word History: The word encyclopedia, which to us usually means a large set of books, descends from a phrase that involved coming to grips with the contents of such books. The Greek phrase is enkuklios paideia, made up of enkuklios, "cyclical, periodic, ordinary," and paideia, "education," and meaning "general education." Copyists of Latin manuscripts took this phrase to be a single Greek word, enkuklopaedia, with the same meaning, and this spurious Greek word became the New Latin word encyclopaedia, coming into English with the sense "general course of instruction," first recorded in 1531. In New Latin the word was chosen as the title of a reference work covering all knowledge. The first such use in English is recorded in 1644.(from the American Heritage Dictionary)
Word History: The word encyclopedia, which to us usually means a large set of books, descends from a phrase that involved coming to grips with the contents of such books. The Greek phrase is enkuklios paideia, made up of enkuklios, "cyclical, periodic, ordinary," and paideia, "education," and meaning "general education." Copyists of Latin manuscripts took this phrase to be a single Greek word, enkuklopaedia, with the same meaning, and this spurious Greek word became the New Latin word encyclopaedia, coming into English with the sense "general course of instruction," first recorded in 1531. In New Latin the word was chosen as the title of a reference work covering all knowledge. The first such use in English is recorded in 1644.(from the American Heritage Dictionary)
Sunday 27 May 2007
Publishers
There are lots of publishers of books, some of them are the more best known such as Penguin, Cambridge University Press, DK Publishing, Macmillan Press, Random House and Time Warner to name but a few.
Saturday 26 May 2007
Audio Books
What is audio book?
Audio book is actually some kind of brand new technological break through but it’s becoming more and more popular among readers. Audio book is simple as someone, who we usually called narrator, read through all the contents inside the book and recorded it on digital media. It was quite long time a go that audio books was recorded in cassette, but today, the evolution of digital media has gone so far, then we have CDs and DVDs of digital audio books. Audio books were first introduced in order to help blind people can read books without problems. But later, audio books have also become popular among everyone, not strict only to blind people. Many books today, especially, story books usually accompanied with CD audio of its contents.
Moreover, it seems that audio books even become more and more popular among readers for many reasons. But the most important one is definitely about its convenience. You don’t have to worry about if you have not enough time to read your favourite book because you are too busy to read it. You can carry your audio book, with a CD or DVD player and you can listen and complete it any time you like, even in the car when you are driving. Other benefits of audio books is when you are reading a traditional paperback, you are absolutely have no chance to do other activities in the same time, but with an audio book, this barrier has been demolished.
Especially for children who love to read their favourite tales and almost of this kind of books now have audio version for children. This makes children more enjoy their listening, especially when they are sitting with their parent and listen together. However, as we know that the Internet now has ruled our life, all of us spend about one third of our time during the day browsing Internet, and we can buy and download millions of audio books online without waiting for 2-3 weeks shipment if compare to if you buy online a traditional paper back ones.
Some schools have already used some of audio book in classrooms, and no longer use the paperback ones. The reason is using audio book is very easy to maintain and stored. It doesn’t matter how good condition or whether is, audio books will never be damaged due to whether, unlike the paper version as the whether is the key factor to make it damaged.
However, there are some opinion and argument from many people, especially parents about if we too much use audio books, do their children’s reading skill will be gone or not properly developed?. Because if they love to listen audio book and take less reading, they will never love to read in traditional way. Some experts said that there are many ways to practice children’s reading skill and this issue is something that parents don’t have to worry about.
They also give some advice that parent should consider amount of books and audio media for their children. For children’s most favourite books, parent should have audio version for them and let them listen instead of reading. This will make them most enjoy about their favourite books. But for some school books or other kind of books, parent should have a tradition paper version for their kids to read to improve children’s reading skills.
By: Kawekied
Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com
Audio book is actually some kind of brand new technological break through but it’s becoming more and more popular among readers. Audio book is simple as someone, who we usually called narrator, read through all the contents inside the book and recorded it on digital media. It was quite long time a go that audio books was recorded in cassette, but today, the evolution of digital media has gone so far, then we have CDs and DVDs of digital audio books. Audio books were first introduced in order to help blind people can read books without problems. But later, audio books have also become popular among everyone, not strict only to blind people. Many books today, especially, story books usually accompanied with CD audio of its contents.
Moreover, it seems that audio books even become more and more popular among readers for many reasons. But the most important one is definitely about its convenience. You don’t have to worry about if you have not enough time to read your favourite book because you are too busy to read it. You can carry your audio book, with a CD or DVD player and you can listen and complete it any time you like, even in the car when you are driving. Other benefits of audio books is when you are reading a traditional paperback, you are absolutely have no chance to do other activities in the same time, but with an audio book, this barrier has been demolished.
Especially for children who love to read their favourite tales and almost of this kind of books now have audio version for children. This makes children more enjoy their listening, especially when they are sitting with their parent and listen together. However, as we know that the Internet now has ruled our life, all of us spend about one third of our time during the day browsing Internet, and we can buy and download millions of audio books online without waiting for 2-3 weeks shipment if compare to if you buy online a traditional paper back ones.
Some schools have already used some of audio book in classrooms, and no longer use the paperback ones. The reason is using audio book is very easy to maintain and stored. It doesn’t matter how good condition or whether is, audio books will never be damaged due to whether, unlike the paper version as the whether is the key factor to make it damaged.
However, there are some opinion and argument from many people, especially parents about if we too much use audio books, do their children’s reading skill will be gone or not properly developed?. Because if they love to listen audio book and take less reading, they will never love to read in traditional way. Some experts said that there are many ways to practice children’s reading skill and this issue is something that parents don’t have to worry about.
They also give some advice that parent should consider amount of books and audio media for their children. For children’s most favourite books, parent should have audio version for them and let them listen instead of reading. This will make them most enjoy about their favourite books. But for some school books or other kind of books, parent should have a tradition paper version for their kids to read to improve children’s reading skills.
By: Kawekied
Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com
A Dictionary
A dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
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, and within protective covers. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a sheet is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an e-book.
Thursday 24 May 2007
Another thought
Do you love to read books? Well, I certainly do and I often go to used book sales to find great books to read. I also considered library sales as one of the greatest treats when I was a kid. I was very lucky because I lived in a large town with a great library. The library can afford to get rid of great books because it was so big. They would offer thousands of used books for sale for far less than they were worth. My family and I would go there and fill up boxes and boxes of books because we were all book lovers. We would have enough reading materials for half a year by just spending 20 dollars each
I have become more pragmatic in my purchases in the present. I'm now going to college so I have to save my money more carefully. As a result, I spend the majority of my money on used text books for sale.I can usually find most of the used books I need because most of the classes keep the same reading from semester to semester. I can take advantage of used books for sale on just about every topic. Some of the best bookstores are located in college towns.The World-Wide-Web is also one of the best sources of used books for sale. Using the Internet has some advantages, although it does not match the excitement of a good used books sale. It can also be hard to keep track of used books online because there are so many of them. You can find almost anything you could want on the web. It was like having a dream come true when I first discovered buying books over the Internet. Online book buying was such a temptation for me that I had to physically leave my house to stop spending money that I didn't have on used books for sale. I have also begun to sell off my used books so that I can finance my voracious reading habits. After all, many of the best book stores depend on their readers for their supply. It is normal for a reading junkie to buy several used books for sale, and then return them several months later at a significant loss. This way the bookstores that sell used will be well stocked with used books for sale.
By: Morgan Hamilton
Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com
Thursday 17 May 2007
What type of fiction books?
My particular type of favourite reading within fiction books are science fiction or horror titles.
Authors
I must admit that one of my favourite authors of books is James Herbert, an author of horror books, who really makes it seem real. I do not think Stephen King, another author of horror books is as good as getting the reader involved with the plot.
Tuesday 15 May 2007
Paperback books
I find that paperback books are strange in that they are not easy to stack, they are easily lost in the house and they are soon forgotten.
Invariably paperbacks are usually fiction titles, so once they are read unfortunately unless they are very memorable that is the end of them, but then they can be passed on for someone else to read.
Invariably paperbacks are usually fiction titles, so once they are read unfortunately unless they are very memorable that is the end of them, but then they can be passed on for someone else to read.
Monday 14 May 2007
Books
Books are funny old things, people write them, someone publishes them, we buy them, we read them, sometimes we sell them again, sometimes we throw them away, sometimes we forget them, sometimes we keep them.
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