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EAN-13 | 9781141187119 |
Product Name | Reading Like A Writer: A Guide For People Who Love Books And For Those Who Want To Write Them (P.S.) |
Language | English |
Category | Book / Magazine / Publication |
Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon ~ 0060777052 |
SKU | NEW-COMMON-54180 |
Price New | 6.47 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Price Used | 1.49 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Width | 0.72 inches (convert) |
Height | 8 inches (convert) |
Length | 5.31 inches (convert) |
Weight | 8 ounces (convert) |
Author | Francine Prose |
Page Count | 273 |
Binding | Paperback |
Published | 04/10/2007 |
Features | Trade paperback |
Long Description | Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading Like a Writer , Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers—Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov—and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch . She looks to John Le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield for clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart. |
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Plessey Barcodes
This symbology was developed by the Plessey Company in England. A variation of Plessey was used by the ADS Company and is known as Anker Code. Anker Code was used in European point of sale systems prior to the advent of EAN. Another variation is known as the MSI Code.
Plessey offers a full range of HEX digits 0-F. The bit pattern of the bits sets the high order bit at the right which is reverse of how we normally think of bits these days. (MSI puts the high order bit on the left).
The start bar is always "D" (1101) and the terminator can be two binary 1's (11) if the barcode is to be read from left to right only. If the barcode can be read in either direction the terminator will be a single binary 1 (1) and is followed by a reverse of the start character or the "B" (1011).
Digit | Strip Bits | Binary Value |
0 | 100100100100 | 0000 |
1 | 110100100100 | 1000 |
2 | 100110100100 | 0100 |
3 | 110110100100 | 1100 |
4 | 100100110100 | 0010 |
5 | 110100110100 | 1010 |
6 | 100110110100 | 0110 |
7 | 110110110100 | 1110 |
8 | 100100100110 | 0001 |
9 | 110100100110 | 1001 |
A | 100110100110 | 0101 |
B | 110110100110 | 1101 |
C | 100100110110 | 0011 |
D | 110100110110 | 1011 |
E | 100110110110 | 0111 |
F | 110110110110 | 1111 |
START | 110110100110 | 1101 |
STOP > | 110110 | 11 |
STOP < > | 110110100110110 | 11011 |
You can use the stripe bits can be used to generate the graphic pattern. If you want to see this trick, check out the MSI Code page. Plessey uses a cyclic (or polynomial) check code technique which is applied to the reading of barcode labels and transmission of data. This technique is a fair compromise between the extra redundancy and the error detecting power. Roughly one undetected error per hundred million 6 digit transactions.
If you would like to generate your own Plessey Barcode, please visit our free barcode generator page. Make your code, save it and use it how ever you like.