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You Could Soon Read An Entire Harry Potter Book In Under 90 Minutes With This App
Soon you could read all 309 pages of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in under 77 minutes. Yes, you. To get through it that quickly (a pace of 1,000 words a minute) you'll have to use an about-to-be released app and forgo the idea of reading page by page.
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This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes
The reading game is about to change forever.
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World Book Day 2014: Top Ten Book-Related Guinness World Records
In celebration of World Book Day 2014, Guinness World Records has revealed its top ten book-related record breakers. Since 1995, World Book Day has been celebrated annually in over 100 countries across the globe, to promote reading, authors and illustrators. Designated by UNESCO, 2014 marks the 17th year of the occasion.
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Is Speed Reading Possible?
A new app promises to help you read novels in minutes. Here's why it might not work.
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Speed-Reader Startup Spritz Closing $3.5M Seed
Spritz, a Boston-based startup that’s been developing a speed-reading technology in stealth since 2011, is in the process of closing a $3.54 million seed funding round. Investors include Denis O’Brien, investing through his telco company Digicel.
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Want to read faster word for word? Install this Squirt.io bookmarklet to melt your brain
Squirt.io will convert your articles and other text into flashing word for word format to read at 350-950wpm. It's a similar tool as Spritz, the company that recently got a $3.5 seed round. But while Spritz is currently only available on a handful of Samsung devices, Squirt can be used in your Chrome, Firefox or Safari web browser right now using its java bookmarklet.
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The Mostly Unread World of Academic Papers
According to one study, which was presumably read by more than three people, half of all academic papers are read by no more than three people.
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Goodwill processes millions of pounds of books annually
Goodwill sells used books and other media on its website.
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How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read
Half a century before e-books turned publishing upside down, a different format threatened to destroy the industry.
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Speed reading apps may kill comprehension
A few months back, there was a lot of buzz about a new display technology that promised to greatly increase people's reading speeds. The approach, typified by Spritz, displays words one at a time in a single location. As the speed cranks up and words fly by, the service seems to live up to its promise: each word registers as it briefly flits across the screen.
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I Own 3,000 E-Books. I Paid $0: How to Build an E-Library Free
Have you downloaded any good e-books lately? I hope you didn't pay too much for them, because there are plenty of ways to get great reads for free.
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Reading
Books and technology
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Italian prisoners to get jail terms cut for every book they read
British jails may have banned books for inmates but in Italy, the more prisoners read the more time have knocked off their sentence. New legislation set to be passed means that for every book a prisoner gets through, three days will be knocked off their sentence - up to a maximum of 48 days in a year. Officials say that is the equivalent of 16 books and they all have to be above 400 pages and approved by prison staff - comic books and picture books are excluded.
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How To Avoid Online Scams And Get A REAL Psychic Reading!
Don't get scammed by a fake psychic! I'll show you how to get the best psychic readings and how to avoid online psychic scams.
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Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm
Should students about to read “The Great Gatsby” be forewarned about “a variety of scenes that reference gory, abusive and misogynistic violence,” as one Rutgers student proposed? Would any book that addresses racism — like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” or “Things Fall Apart” — have to be preceded by a note of caution? Do sexual images from Greek mythology need to come with a viewer-beware label?
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Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be … Paper
Paper books were supposed to be dead by now. For years, information theorists, marketers, and early adopters have told us their demise was imminent. Ikea even redesigned a bookshelf to hold something other than books. Yet in a world of screen ubiquity, many people still prefer to do their serious reading on paper.
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Amazon’s Tactics Confirm Its Critics’ Worst Suspicions
Amazon is confirming its critics’ worst fears and it is an ugly spectacle to behold. For years, authors and publishers have warned that Amazon, Jeff Bezos’ book-selling giant, would one day use its power for ill. Sure, so far, Amazon has marketed itself as a book buyer’s best friend. It sells books at terrifically low prices, it delivers them amazingly quickly, and it constantly invents new technologies to improve the way we read.
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Readers' Night Out
At silent-reading parties, guests bring books, stay as long as they want, and aren’t allowed to speak to one another.
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George RR Martin's editor hints at eighth Game of Thrones book
Martin's editor Anne Groell has said in a Q&A that the presence of an eighth kingdom in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire saga might indicate an eighth book in the series
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The Era of Fake Knowledge: Why It’s Never Been Easier To Fake What You Know
"You can pop open a Wikipedia page and within a few minutes feign competence."
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