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  • Stanza, the epub-based e-book reader for the iPhone and other Web-capable phones, may well be playing Mosaic to bookworm's Viola.

    Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book Tim O'Reilly 2009

  • Ladies, are you you trying to get that bookworm's attention, but you just can't seem to make him or her! notice.

    People are strange Tripp 2006

  • Ladies, are you you trying to get that bookworm's attention, but you just can't seem to make him or her! notice.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Tripp 2006

  • They're great fun, and massively clever, and a bookworm's dream.

    Which came first? annawaits 2006

  • They're great fun, and massively clever, and a bookworm's dream.

    Archive 2006-07-01 annawaits 2006

  • Indeed we might think of the dense textual circles that this classic realist literature provides not merely as frames but as refractive lenseslenses bulging (like those of the classic bookworm's glasses) with the thickness both of what James called "the art of fiction" and

    Critical Presentism 2002

  • New England, and particularly rich in those rare and costly works which form a bookworm's delight, was one of Percival's best-loved lounging-places.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

  • "Is it?" cried Bart, in profound admiration of the old bookworm's system.

    Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Allen Chapman

  • All the same, the old bookworm's going to show his ancestors that there's vigorous blood flowing in his veins too.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • All the same, the old bookworm's going to show his ancestors that there's vigorous blood flowing in his veins too.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

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