Sentence examples for book a device from inspiring English sources

Mr. Barrett added that the winning e-reader might turn out to resemble the book, a device that has proved a success for more than 15 centuries.

Microsoft surprised the technology world with the Surface Book, a device that puts a new spin on what productivity might look like.

McNally Jackson Books will introduce an Espresso Book Machine, a device that can print and bind a new book in minutes, to its New York City store.

Asus has unveiled the Transformer Book Trio, a device the company is describing as the "world's first three-in-one notebook, tablet and desktop PC".

It began with a Jan . 9article by P.J. Mark in Inside magazine about how the Harvard Business School Press bought a planned book about a device, originally code-named Ginger now called IT.

"A book is a device for the storage and retrieval of information," he says.

Jonathan Kirsch, reviewing the novel "Carriage Trade" in the Los Angeles Times in 1993, noted that Birmingham kicked off the book "with a device so hackneyed that it has become the stuff of parody: the reading of the will". But by the end of the book — a mystery tale concerning a family dynasty in the department store business — Kirsch admitted to being hooked.

If someone came up to you and told you that you could store thousands of books on a device that weighed less than one of those books, and you were a devout book lover, let's be honest: you'd would take it.

With e-books, I can carry around 50 pounds of books in a device weighing a couple of pounds, or have access to vast libraries wherever I can log on to the Web, or share a good book with a blind friend because an e-book can be read aloud by software.

In "The Rock Cried Out" (1979), for instance, a Klansman confesses to a killing in a prolix soliloquy delivered over CB radio (it ranges over more than 20 pages in the finished book), a narrative device that did not find favor with every critic.

With Amazon's Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers.