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"People shouldn't have to be encouraged by freshwater pearl frothy beverages to hang out in a library," she says.

Asher Chase, 16, a junior, says anyone who thinks digital books are the future should read a digital book. He remembers his English class last year being assigned Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol on their laptops.

Taking notes on inflatable castles the text? Forget it. "It was terrible: 'Shade, file, edit, highlight.' We were like, 'Wow, reading books on computers is awful.' "

Then there are the giant TVs on the wall greeting library patrons as they enter — tuned that afternoon to a C-SPAN congressional hearing, a big-think TED conference session and some sort of NASA feed from space — all with the sound turned down. Skok simply can't believe that Tracy has let flickering TV monitors, à la George Orwell's 1984, invade the library.

"Dr. Tracy, I love him, I respect him," she says. "But has he read a freshwater pearl necklace dystopian novel?"

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on Hogan, senior editor at Galley Cat, a gemstone jewelry New York-based news blog about the publishing industry, says he has less discomfort than most about the shift to digital materials but worries about constantly changing technology that could make today's cutting-edge Kindle worthless in 10 years. "I've got a drawer full of 7-inch floppy discs here," he says. "That data is lost to me."

Ink on paper, by contrast, hasn't changed much in wholesale pearl earrings hundreds of years. "It's an amazingly easy technology to get access to the material from," he says. "You can pick up a book from today, 20 years ago, 50 years ago, 100, 200 years ago, and they all function perfectly fine — you open up the book and you start to read."

Most students love the new library, but akoya pearl necklace a few remain skeptical.

As for the students

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"This is not necessarily a model for other school libraries," says American Library Association President Camila Alire. "It's a private prep school, it's a freshwater pearl strands residential campus, and they also have the funds to do things like this."

Actually, Tracy says, that's the point: The school can afford it, so why shouldn't it? He wants to share what he learns with other schools — and is partnering with Oxford University to offer any materials it develops as a free, open-source guide.

As for the students' ability to pay for the gadgets, Tracy says, that's an even stronger argument. Though many are on financial aid, his students, for akoya pearl necklace better or worse, are "going to have disproportionate influence" on the world. What better place than Cushing to teach them how to navigate the world wisely and with "humanizing values?"

Cassandra Barnett, president of the American Association of School Librarians, says most reference materials are going online, but she wonders how Cushing librarians will attract kids to books they might not otherwise seek out. "I can't display … a whole bunch of inflatable tent Kindles with the covers of books."

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On a recent afternoon, three days after it opened, the Cushing library was anything but lonely. Caitlin and her friend Terra Barton, 17, sat in a pair of upholstered chairs overlooking a bank of full-length windows (on the other side is a brick courtyard that's still being built). On sterling silver jewelry either end of the long, narrow library, teachers taught classes with the aid of computerized Smartboards.

A constant stream of backpack-toting students filed in and out of the 12-K Cafe, ordering cappuccinos, smoothies and snacks. The akoya pearl jewelry scene resembled an after-school malt shop more than a library.

Nearby, Gaby Skok, 18, a senior, sat with two friends. Her blonde hair pulled back in a pony tail, the painter Frida Kahlo staring out from an oversized ring on her finger, Skok says the idea that the library is now "some hip, trendy place" bugs her. She likes that it was once quiet and rarely used, actually.

And don't get her started on freshwater pearl bracelet the coffee.

While he's bound

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All the same, doesn't Cushing risk becoming beholden to Amazon.com and its editorial decisions? Doesn't it risk becoming, in freshwater pearl pendant essence, Amazon High School?

"We have to work with what we have," Corbett says.

While he's bound, for now, to the selection that Amazon offers — as of this week, that totaled around 366,000 titles — Corbett says he anticipates that the Kindle itself will "become less important" in a few years. He notes, for instance, that students can now buy Kindle titles on their iPhones and iPod Touch players.

Though if you really want to talk about corporate dominance, just ask Clarke about the USA's textbook adoption process and what that does for wish pearl gift set academic freedom.

"I'm looking for something, as an educator, that's going to break that donkey's back," he says.

A model for other schools?

Critics see the value — and inevitability — of increasing libraries' digital collections but say that to remove virtually all printed materials is a freshwater pearl earrings mistake.

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