And it's easy to get trapped reading multiple books at once, thanks to Amazon's ecosystem.

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In Ghana, for example, sixth-graders sitting a simple multiple-choice reading test scored on average the same mark that would be gained by random guessing.

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Publishers have been bombarding readers with display ads that overlay stories, and breaking up stories across multiple pages of poor reading experience for the sake of additional ad impressions.

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For a good number of students, this iPad reading added up to multiple hours on the gadget a day.

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Just viewing the game from multiple viewpoints could make for a fairly dry reading experience, but Kettmann manages to pull this off in fine fashion by imparting a bit of history to the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, and by giving the reader a chance to know some of the subjects as real people.

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The power of the concept is that they give the physician the opportunity to read multiple journals and news sources in one place, to customize the reading experience to suit themselves, e.g.

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For those who have followed the story, reading Dimon cop to major mistakes is no surprise given the hefty losses, multiple congressional hearings and scathing Senate subcommittee report sparked by the trading scandal.

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He was an avid reader, reading tens of thousands of books, at a rate of several a day in multiple languages.

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