Where iRex shines isn't in book-formatted text, but in the no-nonsense business and legal documents: Word, HTML and above all, PDFs.

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The European Commission organised an instant poll after the referendum, in which three-quarters of no voters said they thought the text could be renegotiated by the government, as leading no campaigners had told them.

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It sends shoppers who have opted in the service real-time deals via text message as they enter the shopping center no apps, check-in or printed coupons necessary.

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Apparently no one imagined that the text might be wielded by crafty American firms in Canada.

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Judge Silberman takes us completely through the looking glass when he complains that there is no support for a distinction between activity and non-activity in the text of the Constitution.

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Besides lacking a camera, WiFi, GPS and even music playback (obviously), there's no color display, WAP browser, email client or T9 predictive text (which all came with the T68i), and no GPRS packet data or built-in Bluetooth (which both arrived with the T39).

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The default screen page is monopolized entirely by the text, with no title on the top and no page on the bottom -- though numbers do sometimes appear in incredibly small font in the right margin.

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