It remains to be seen, though, if newspaper readers are indeed clamoring for a device that simply copies the experience of reading a traditional, dead-tree newspaper.

但是报纸读者是否会真的需要一个只是简单重现了传统报纸的阅读体验的设备，还尚待分晓。

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Brazil came dead last in maths and fourth from the bottom in reading in tests administered in 40 countries by the OECD.

在经合组织(OECD)主持的有40个国家参加的考试中，巴西的数学和阅读成绩分列倒数第一和倒数第四。

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Among the OECD members, the most developed 34 nations on earth, Mexico, principal feeder nation for U.S. schools, came in dead last in reading.

在经合组织成员国，地球上34个最发达国家中，墨西哥，美国学校的主要生源国，在阅读方面竟排在倒数第一位。

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Undoubtedly, everybody reading this knows the news: Osama bin Laden is dead.

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So, if the Kobo reader isn't quite the future of reading devices, it's certainly firmly entrenched in the present, with enough likeable qualities at a price point that few could argue with, to keep it on our list of readers we wouldn't mind spending a night at home curled up with on the sofa, reading Wuthering Heights while our significant other plays Red Dead Redemption.

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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

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