Moreover, mediocre readers had the same kind of hearing deficit as the poor readers, albeit to a lesser extent.

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The researchers found that all the poor readers, while normal in nearly every other measure of hearing, had problems distinguishing closely-spaced tones.

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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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They would mostly run Android, sport single-core ARM chips, relatively-short battery life (think 4-5 hours), inferior touchscreens (stylus, anyone?), and often a poor selection of apps (subsets of the Google Android Market or, in the case of e-readers, none at all).

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