But today most travellers eschew the hefty tomes for online trip planners and smartphone apps.
Yet today these imposing tomes that bent the bookshelves of yesterday's children are gathering dust.
If its tomes had been more widely read, might the worst have been avoided?
Particularly interesting are the many points on which earlier tomes and conventional wisdom are mistaken.
The bookshops in the mega churches are full of tomes on management as well as spiritual uplift.
But sentimentality aside, and when you really think about it, traditional cookbooks are better as coffee-table tomes.
Most undertake not just to lower bills, but to dispense with whole tomes of the 3.4m-word code.
Bumper bookstore Eymundsson stocks great pictorial tomes, while Geysir sells beautiful, locally-designed clothing, strong on the folk motif.
Or dusty architecture tomes whose fragile and one dimensional drawings get charmed into 3D versions on a computer.
Turning in tomes to the campus bookstore is an exercise in giving up assets for pennies on the dollar.
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He combines breadth of vision with (in this age of mega-tomes) merciful brevity.
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For a window on up-to-the-minute art news, stop at the gallery bookshop for independent, edgy magazines and lush tomes in both French and English.
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Perhaps authors think that the field is crowded, with tomes by Tom Clancy and the more elegant products of John le Carre.
Sadly, all those heavy tomes cost money and I have no interest in duplicating my ownership of the titles in eReader format.
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There are get-rich-quick books, estate-planning books, trend books and the beat-the-market tomes.
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But there's no doubting the need for accessible technical assistance beyond those extraordinary tomes you see geeks carting out of computer shops.
Hefty tomes, issued by various publishers, distributors and releasing companies in various forms of media have accompanied the Kurosawa Centennial, to various degrees of success.
Instead of the grand five-act play structure of previous tomes, we have a series of chapters that essentially say the same thing about different topics.
It's important, she notes, that these tomes "speak to the four-minute attention span" so guests don't end up staying too long in the powder room.
Now they try to market fewer, better tomes with greater energy.
Many such tomes are gathering dust in the recesses of Whitehall.
Most business books are big fat bores, except for those that are skinny bores--those trite little tomes involving whales and cheese and lessons learned from kindergarten.
Owens-designed shelving holds tomes that range from Scotty Bowers's scandalous memoir, Full Service, to a compendium of Fellini films to seven bound volumes of Interview magazine.
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Ms Russell has produced a rich and humid world of spirits and dreams, buzzing mosquitoes and prehistoric reptiles, baby-green cocoplums and marsh rabbits, and musty old tomes about heroes and spells.
Open Harbor, in San Carlos, California, wants to be global trade's equivalent of a radar detector, replacing with a fast Web service the practice of thumbing through thick tomes of trade rules and restrictions.
The theme is particularly fitting for Paris, a city famous for the tomes written in and on its hallowed literary turf and for playing host to the literary salons of the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Reorganize into three distinct parts: the single-volume Propaedia (an outline of the series), 10 volumes of Micropaedia (short articles) and 19 tomes of Macropaedia (longer contributions), which made looking up any subject an infuriating task.
This is not to say that Mr Bush is likely to turn White House meetings into open-ended seminars, like Bill Clinton, or that he is going to waste much midnight oil reading the latest conservative tomes.
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