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Scribd -- the most unpronounceable branding since gdgt.com -- wants to encrypt your eBook and sell it for you -- and for that favor they'll take a 20% consignment fee for their role in the life of your book.

Giacomo Brunelli is a great photographer and he set out to capture the spirit and essence of everyday animals in a new book.

Six Thousand Languages

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We currently have 6,000 languages in active use across the world; by 2050 we will have lost half of them.  Peter K. Austin, in -- One Thousand Languages -- takes us on a multicultural tour of the most interesting remaining languages.

Go to any used bookstore and peruse the most ragged looking of the books that they have. Books that have been read and reread, full of side notes and pages that are bent in every way conceivable. I often wonder if there really is a "better" way to read a book. As far as I can tell, there are basically two schools of thought: The school of thought that subscribes to carefully reading a book and making sure that the pages remain unbent and clean, and the school of thought that advocates writing notes on the pages and bending over pages to indicate the place of the reader.

Books are written for purchasing and forever saving.

There is nothing worse for a writer than an Author Review that never ends. The fingers crumble.  The mind withers.  The eye explodes.

My new book is here; your time to buy is now! Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is your fresh guide to finding all the best new stuff packed into Office for Mac 2008!

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