Mr. McWhinnie, who began selling items from his own sizable book collection as a graduate student, met Mr. Horowitz, an established rare-book dealer, at a book fair.
The iPad 2 weighs 1.33 pounds (the iPad 3 is even heavier), which is as much as a sizable hardcover book, only all that weight is concentrated into a single unyielding slab.
There will be a skimpy 2 megabytes of memory, which isn't much to work with on a Palm device but is enough if all you want to do is keep track of your daily schedule and a sizable address book, among other things.
Yet, when we dug deeper we also found a sizable set of books that appeared on both types of readers' shelves in roughly equal amounts.
If you look at the books in his library at the end of his life, he had many that we would expect from a prodigious orator, but he also had a sizable number of books about the arts by John Ruskin and writings by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on photography.
Simple economies of scale show us that marketing, sales, and fulfillment costs alone require a sizable "list" of books to be economical.
Other outstanding highlights of the collection include an extensive selection of books on the history of Hungary's capital--the twin cities of Buda and Pest--and a sizable number of books on the history of Transylvania.
You can rack up a sizable collection of books in your first year, especially with general education classes (American lit, anyone?).
Although Mr. Ollestad's memories here are thinner, he stretches them so that they fill a sizable part of the book.
A sizable part of the book is devoted to Eisenhower's discreet but powerful influence: over Truman (who made the mistake of suggesting publicly that the war hero Eisenhower become a presidential candidate); over "that young whippersnapper" John F. Kennedy, who badly needed strategic advice after the Bay of Pigs fiasco; and of course over his own vice president, Nixon.
