The phrase "adopt a book" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is taking responsibility for a book, often in educational or community settings, such as a reading program or library initiative.
Example: "Our school encourages students to adopt a book from the library and share their thoughts with the class."
Alternatives: "sponsor a book" or "choose a book".
Inspiration was not lacking, but the means to make it material remained elusive, even though the new members of the board had made generous donations themselves, each adopting a book for fifty thousand dollars.
The curves for the two user categories are very different for both measures, thus revealing that users who adopt a particular book have been exposed, on average, to a higher number of users who had previously put that book in their libraries.
In 1979 the Episcopal Church adopted a revised Book of Common Prayer, which offered a choice of texts, one preserving the traditional language.
Surprisingly often, the experts who write child-rearing books adopt a tart or patronizing tone, sounding less like guides than defenders of children from the ignorance or selfishness of their bumbling parents.
One might therefore have expected his book to adopt a revisionist line on Vietnam to argue, for example, that the antiwar media misrepresented the military situation and made it politically impossible for us to prosecute the war to the fullest of our capabilities.
To give some insight into this issue, we adopt a prediction approach in which, given a book graph G ∗ ( b, t ), we try to predict the shape of the graph G ∗ ( b, t + 1 ) based on the F b and K b values at time t of the users who will adopt book b at time t + 1.
As turmoil spreads, the truly breakthrough self-help books will adopt a different tenor -- one that is more nuanced, and less silo-ed, more about social and behavior change than a number on the scale or dollar amount on your credit cards.
At the moment of adopting a new rule book, the Lisbon treaty, to give the EU global clout, confused Europeans find themselves asking: what is their union for?In this moment of angst, a masterly historical survey of the European project, coupled with a critique of its current failings, is just what the EU needs.
By Alex Ross For the "Ring," Robert Lepage has adopted a clumsy comic-book approach.
