If a book on the shelf piques your interest, by all means, check it out.

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The iBook display looks like a real wooden bookshelf and will let users touch a book on that shelf to read it.

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It's not too difficult, but is still considerably more complicated than walking into the library and pulling a book off the shelf.

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At their previous home, which overlooked a city park, "I would sometimes have someone come up to me and say, 'Oh, I saw you getting a book off the shelf, ' " she recalled.

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The references to the founders and the documents in the second half of the book make it a useful book to have on the shelf.

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Ms. Perillo stacks the book on a shelf in her kitchen.

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For years now, that book has been sitting on a shelf in my office.

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Stanford library director Michael Keller says the librarians determined which books to keep on the shelf by looking at how frequently a book was checked out.

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As a webmaster and a programmer, I find it a great comfort that the O'Reilly series is sitting on the book shelf behind my chair.

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The book surveys shelf after shelf of the economics literature but in such skilful hands it does not feel like a dutiful trip to the library.

ECONOMIST: Economics