If your interface looks like a book, people will try to turn its pages.
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It takes a major change of pace, like a book club, to break down those walls.
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Like a book-club buddy, it will electronically nudge you with suggestions about other volumes you might like.
One of those crowded movies that want to be read like a book of connected short stories.
The logic was: this should be as much like a book as possible.
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The DODO case is a high-end iPad case that looks like a book.
Make 8 to 10 shallow cuts in the thicker parts, then open them out like a book and press flat.
Amazon knows just what people have bought, and, like a book club, it now welcomes customers with some personal recommendations.
It knows, for instance, that people who like a book will have three 5-to-7-minute conversations about it over a 12-week period.
The island valley opens itself like a book, and between the pages is a slick of bitumen designed by a madman.
It features a protective cover that flips open for quick access to the Multi-Touch display and closes like a book to protect against dirt and smudges.
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Apple has acquired the patent on the page turn, meaning that any other book app that wants to look like a book will have to license the design of a turning page from Apple.
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Plus, how can you not like a book about a spaceship that numbers among its crew a piece of automated luggage that has become self-aware and founded a lobbying group for other self-aware appliances and luggage?
The consumer division of Compaq, the world's leading computer maker, is also working on a desktop machine that folds up "like a book, " keyboard and all, when out of use, says Franklin Sze, senior product marketing manager for Compaq's greater China division.
This model does three things very well that address all my concerns: it stays balanced while rolling, it is much, much easier to load and unload thanks to a zipper that goes all the way around the head of the clubs so it opens more like a book, and it has an awesome set of retractable legs that make it into a four wheeler.
It had a rap structure but going after a very positive message and talking about things like read a book and take responsibility and do the right thing and do all these things.
Like a good book, Lindsay says the Internet also opens new worlds for her.
The promotions page is also littered with fake 5 star reviews to make this look like a great book.
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"You have to read the cloth, like reading a book, " she tells me.
Reading Heart of Darkness is more like using a book as a mirror to see more clearly who you are.
Known for its friendly service and immaculately maintained surroundings, Mayan Palace Acapulco is like a good book you can't put down.
It sounds like a good book, and it will certainly sell well, but The Casual Vacancy is not the stuff of entertainment franchises.
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The Drouhin cellars, located in the very heart of Beaune, read like a history book, with many architectural elements dating back to the 10th century.
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It is a region that Curiosity project scientist John Grotzinger told the BBC's Horizon programme reads like a "book about the early environmental history of Mars".
The first Kindle, now available only on eBay or other outlets where antique hardware languishes, is a sloping wedge that's wider on its left side, which allows readers to wrap their hands around the e-reader like a paperback book with its cover folded back around the spine.
In a 2009 study, Ulrike Malmendier of the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA's Geoff Tate found that companies performed poorly after their leaders were voted "CEO of the Year, " because of the distractions that came with the fame, like writing a book and hobnobbing at Davos.
Many want time to work on projects they're passionate about but can't squeeze in, like writing a book (Kelly Braddock, a NYC-based realtor), taking a writing class (Lois Kelly, owner of the marketing firm BeeLine in Rhode Island) or learning to cook (Andrea Botwin, a research scientist from Philadelphia), while the majority are hoping for spa certificates or weekend escapes.
As the site - and their visibility - has grown, the Petersiks have been able to supplement their revenue through projects like a best-selling book and a lighting line.
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