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Boston Globe - Borrowers in Andover take out portable, digital audio books so tiny that they can jog through the park or shop at the mall while listening to Dan Brown's bestseller "The Da Vinci Code." And in Palmer, young patrons jostle for their turn to play Guitar ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - He'd see things on the wall - books, windows, pictures - that weren't really there. After a few days, when the aspirins and compresses weren't helping, he went to the hospital, where doctors gave him an MRI. That was Aug. 22. He hasn't been out since. ...

New York Times - Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections. The research libraries ...

Seattle Times - Two recent books offer insights into how to make the most of it. "After 50 It's Up to Us: Developing the Skills and Agility We'll Need," by George H. Schofield (The Clarity Group, 2007; $14.95), is a gem of a little book that offers advice on how to ...

Seattle Times - Join Historic Seattle members today when they explore and discuss some of the library's most important collections of books, maps, photographs and ephemera, including a 1903 edition of the "Lewis and Clark Journals" edited by historian Reuben ...

International Herald Tribune - We continue to expect FT Publishing to achieve double-digit margins in 2007," the company said. Sales from its schools business rose 7 percent, and higher education sales were up 5 percent. Penguin books reported a 2 percent gain in sales, the company ...

BusinessWeek - Asia's economic ascendancy by turns awes and terrifies Western executives. Yet it's China and India that fascinate now—not the once-fabled Southeast Asian Tiger economies. In the mid-1990s, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the deep-water port ...

Seattle Times - But nothing matches Snoqualmie Point, and next Saturday morning it goes into the history books. During its languid years, the shelf of rock that overlooks the vistas of the Snoqualmie Valley — on a clear day, from British Columbia to Mount Si and ...

Seattle Times - The author of two books on ambiguous loss, she has researched and worked with 4,000 families around the world — including families who lost a loved one on Sept. 11, wives of pilots missing in Vietnam and of husbands lost at sea, and families in ...

Newsday - THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Novelist, poet and sculptor Jan Wolkers, whose sex-charged books helped shake off the shackles of postwar conservatism in the Netherlands, died Friday at his home on the North Sea island of Texel, his publisher said. He was ...