In second grade, a schoolmate lent me a copy of "The Arabian Nights" -we both thought it was a book for children-and told me I had three days to read it.

小学二年级的时候，一个同学借给我一本《一千零一夜》——我们俩都以为这是本儿童书籍——但告诉我我只有三天时间读这本书。

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2：The professor threw us a curve: half of the questions were from the reference book he asked us to read but we never did since he didn't cover the book in class.

那个学生说：教授刁难我们。有一半试题都来自他要我们看的参考书，然而我们却从来没读过，因为他在课上没讲到那本书的内容。

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In the Shallows, a book about memory and the Internet, Nicholas Carr said the Web was changing the way we think, read and remember. Humans are hunters and hoarders of information.

在一本关于记忆与因特网的书《The shallows》中，Nicholas Carr表示网络已经改变了我们思考，阅读以及记忆的方式。

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Rhodes is known for having predicted many of the troubles we faced beginning in 2008, and a read of his new book will help explain why.

FORBES: Book Review: Banker To the World by William R. Rhodes

She's fleetingly the voice of her generation, but she never speaks in the book which we read as though it were a gossip column.

WSJ: Book Review: Moments of Being | The Woman in the Dunes | The Decoration of Houses | Erasure | Edie

Now, you can lock the orientation sensor and pretty much never encounter this issue again (we can't ever really imagine needing to read a text-based book with adjustable font sizes in landscape mode, after all), but it seemed worth mentioning given it goes unchanged since the previous version.

ENGADGET: Amazon Kindle DX Graphite review