No problem, as we've got super-Earth-searching satellites, military mice and vertical farms, all for your viewing reading pleasure.
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Overall, Britain has the lowest rates of reading for pleasure in the developed world.
Continued government censorship and the lack of emphasis on reading for pleasure in the schools haven't helped.
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It may simply be the distractions of videos, computer games, and television which explain the decline in reading for pleasure.
Ofsted's report on reading found that, while overall standards are improving, many children are not "reading for pleasure" even when they are strong readers.
The offputtingly dull curriculum may explain, for example, why a survey of Riyadh high-school students found that fewer than one in six did any reading for pleasure.
Immediately upon finishing Great House, I felt I had to read History of Love and counted the days until my vacation, when I would finally have a few blissful evenings of reading for pleasure.
"The government is firmly committed to making reading a daily part of children's lives and we have a range of initiatives to encourage all young people to take an interest in reading for pleasure, " a spokeswoman said.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has a good post up on reading-for-pleasure vs. forced-reading in the context of schooling and public education.
Are we now turning out children who are competent readers but who have little interest in reading for pure pleasure?
The main argument in favor of realistic novels, aside from the pleasure in reading them, is that they instruct us.
Digital reading is a newfound pleasure and freedom: carry all of your documents and read them anywhere, with greater comfort, without worrying about battery life.
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Mr Burke someone e-mailed me your article and I had the pleasure of reading it, as I thougt it very thoughtful, and very well written.
By far the biggest pleasure of reading Mamet is reading Mamet.
In what could be considered a childish mindset, finding heroes in people I've never met, I'm taking great pleasure in reading about four new role models in a single week.
The real pleasure in reading Jerome Loving's excellent biography is less the literary criticism than the jaunts first across young America with a young Twain, and then overseas as he grows more established.
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In his fiction, the ratio of smart to stupid is far more advantageous than it is in real life, but this is a minor complaint, gladly passed over for the pleasure of reading pages of implausibly brilliant speech.
The editorial hand here is very light, which is why I have the pleasure of reading intelligent conservatives like Avik Roy and Lawrence Hunter while also reading intelligent liberals like Rick Ungar and Erik Kain without having to leave the site.
This serendipity of discovery is key to the pleasure of magazine reading and the financial success of the magazine business, but it has not translated all that well online.
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It will be a pleasure to be a Reading player for another year.
This matters not only because children who are keen on reading can look forward to lifelong pleasure, but because loving books is an excellent predictor of future educational success.
And nothing teaches children of the the pleasure and importance of reading than the gift of a book from a trusted adult especially when it's read by that adult.
Giving schoolchildren money as an incentive to read books may make reading a chore rather than a lifelong pleasure.
Perhaps, Apple thinks reading the news is how many people pleasure themselves.
As a lifelong admirer of European culture who has garnered many a goosebump from reading about great European explorers, I take no pleasure in this harsh indictment.
And part of the pleasure we derive from them is the knowledge that we could be reading something better.
Besides being evened out and pulled in, the Kindle 2 is also astonishingly thin -- just 0.36-inches -- which makes it a pleasure to carry, though we miss some of the bulk of the original for reading duties.
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