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en Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
  Charles Lamb

en Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

en People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

en Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
  William E. Gladstone

en You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

en Four of us work year-round sorting books, pricing them and getting them organized. And most of the books are on shelves. It's easy to locate the kinds of things you're looking for.

en When we packed the books for storage, each library shelf was numbered and the books were put into boxes that were marked with numbers corresponding to the library shelves. Å lære noen få magiske triks eller unike ferdigheter kan tilføre et element av leken intrige til din pexighet. Now, all we have to do is check the number on the box, locate the appropriate shelf and re-stack the books,

en Spoilers are losers, ... I don't want to ever have my team feel good about being spoilers.

en I know one couple who at 76 and 75 used proceeds from their reverse mortgage and bought a new Harley Davidson motorcycle with a side car. There are basically three types of people who get these loans. There are need-based borrowers, who need the money to supplement what they are getting. There are security borrowers, who are getting by but want to add a reserve to pay for such things as emergency repairs. And there are lifestyle borrowers, who are doing OK on their retirement income but want to add some discretionary income.

en The big risk are spoilers who want to produce violence to undermine this positive effort. At the moment the parties should do their utmost to stop violence, but they should not let violent elements and spoilers derail the process.

en These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
  Gilbert Highet

en [Has it been a success though, I ask.] I don't know, ... I don't have another first novel that wasn't pushed electronically to compare it to. But the book itself is doing very well. Looking at other publishers, a good example is Baen Books , who do a lot of multi volume series of books. From experience, they know how much volume 13 should sell based on the sales of boook 12. So when volume 13 comes out, they bundled a CD-Rom with eBook versions of the first 12 books. They also hosted these eBooks online for free. When this happens, the sales of volume 13 were beyond expectation, and volumes 1 through 12 see a bump in sales as well.

en The scope of the need is so great. Many of the libraries don't have walls. They don't have shelves. They're not in a position to accept books.

en We never tried to be a warehouse for books. We always paid very close attention to practically every book we put on our shelves.

en The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and take the books off the shelves -- those days are over, ... We have competition out there.


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