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Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Children's books

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Some children's books can be appreciated by readers who ceased, long ago, to be children. No doubt the finest cases of such literature a...
Thursday, July 2, 2009

World library catalogue

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A US-based organization named OCLC [ Online Computer Library Center ] has been grouping together many of the planet's great libraries w...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Revolution in the world of books?

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I've put a question mark at the end of my title, because I really don't know with certainty what's likely to happen in the near ...
Friday, August 17, 2007

Ordinary village, extraordinary bookshop

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When you arrive in Banon , in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, it looks like a rather ordinary village, which hasn't yet been beautified by ...
Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Machina sapiens

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On February 26, 2007 I wrote a blog article whose title was What's in a name? [Click here to display it.] I mentioned the fact that,...
Saturday, May 5, 2007

Influencing people

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During my trip out to Australia last year, I was thrilled to receive an unexpected gift from my young sister Jill. In an outdoor market, pro...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Reading

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Over the last six months, my acquisition of English-language books has increased considerably because of the ease of getting them through th...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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