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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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.

ENGADGET: Kobo e-reader review

" I remember once waking up from a dream in which my mother, dead now for thirty-three years, was sipping tea at my kitchen table, reading a newspaper on the back of which there was the headline "Wrong Man, Right Name, Convicted in Murder Trial.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Atmospheric Disturbances'

"We have received six dead bodies, including two women, " said Jameel Shah, a spokesman for the city's Lady Reading hospital.

BBC: Pakistani city of Peshawar hit by deadly blast