Word: tape
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...better solution for protecting your data is to purchase a dedicated tape back-up drive for you Mac or PC, which can store the entire contents of your hard disk. These drives install easily into your computer or plug into the back of it. They use special tapes to store from 120 Mb or two gigabytes worth of files...
Someone might take a tape, though. To listen is not to read (especially if the book is abridged), but it's close enough for many. Audiobooks, long tainted by their association with motivational infomercial gurus, got a sorely needed cultural seal of approval when Hillary Clinton received a Grammy Award for her spoken version of her book, It Takes a Village. The market for audiobooks is booming. That may be, in part, because they are compact and convenient and offer pseudo intimacy with sages and celebrities. The forthcoming John F. Kennedy: A Journey to Camelot by Paul Werth will...
...time can feel abnormal. And because so much reading is done in private, behind closed doors (often bedroom doors), no one really knows what normal is. A book a day? A month? A year? Do self-help books count, or only novels? What if they're on tape...
...segment of the instant-pundit industry: right-wing women commentators. That's why her recent essay in the Washington Post apologizing for her rabid intolerance of gays dropped like a bombshell. Notorious in her student days for vilifying "sodomites" in the Dartmouth Review--and for sending a reporter to tape a Gay Students Association meeting, then naming names--she wrote that she changed her views after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity and courage" with which her brother and his late companion coped with AIDS. She now understands why gays need protection and regrets her "callous rhetoric...
According to MacMillan, though most complaints about being misquoted are often reasonable, others come from people who regret their words. For this reason, The Crimson investigates all claims of misquotation. Though Crimson reporters do not tape record interviews, except for those with senior administration officials, the reporter's notes will often reveal the error...