Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Fabric bookmark with Bedouin embroidery, Lakiya, Israel A metal bookmark with a fabric tassel and decorative beads A bookmark is a thin marking tool, commonly made of card , leather , or fabric , used to keep track of a reader's progress in a book and allow the reader to easily return to where the previous reading session ended.
By "adjusting the odds" in their favour (paying out amounts using odds that are less than what they determined to be the true odds) or by having a point spread, bookmakers aim to guarantee a profit by achieving a 'balanced book', either by getting an equal number of bets for each possible outcome or (when they are offering odds) by getting the amounts wagered on each outcome to reflect the ...
For data portability and interoperability, most modern Web browsers support importing from and exporting to the Netscape bookmarks.html format. Beginning with Firefox 3, Mozilla Corporation began using SQLite in browser releases to store bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences in a transactionally secure database.
A bookmark is used to keep one's place in a printed work. It can also refer to: Bookmark (digital), a pointer in a web browser and other software; Bookmarks, 2013 album by Five for Fighting; Bookmarks, an American literary magazine; Bookmark, a BBC Two TV series; Bookmarks, an educational television show on Netflix
Rotating bookmarks were a kind of bookmark used in medieval Europe. They were attached to a string, along which a marker could be slid up and down to mark a precise level on the page. They were attached to a string, along which a marker could be slid up and down to mark a precise level on the page.
In 1974, a colleague who had attended one of his seminars, Art Fry, came up with the idea of using the adhesive to anchor his bookmark in his hymn book. [15] [16] Fry then utilized 3M's sanctioned "permitted bootlegging" policy, which allows employees to spend some of their work time on projects of their own choosing, to develop the idea. [16]
Simon J. Bronner (ed.), "Book Clubs", Encyclopedia of American Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press, OCLC 213273863 + "Print Culture" Rare Book School (in Virginia) bibliographies: History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to Modern; History of the Book in America, c. 1700–1830; American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940
A History of the Book in America is a five-volume series of scholarly books of essays published 2000–2010 by the University of North Carolina Press, and edited by David D. Hall. [1] Topics include printing, publishing, book selling, reading, and other aspects of print culture in colonial America and the United States.