So when Reader S wrote to suggest a post on that point, I hoped I (and my readers) could help her out with some solid advice.
That would be a bad day indeed, but it's nothing next to this reader's favorite apocalypse.
Samar's sense of estrangement eventually becomes the reader's response to the book.
The witty book took the overall prize, while author and Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson took the younger reader's award for her book Best Friends.
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But if I were doing a business model for broadsheets and broadcast networks I'd say: Fact and data are our product, we're putting everything into reporting, that's what we're selling, interpretation is the reader's job, and think pieces are for the edit page where we put the hardy, blabby hacks.
Mr Schlink's seductress evokes the banality of evil, but it is the Reader's life-story that is really tragic.
Ms Patchett tracks Marina's thoughts with particular intuitiveness so that her character's feelings of isolation, fear and self-doubt begin to creep across the reader's own skin.
"It's an embarrassment to our town, " said Paul Winer, the nudist owner of Reader's Oasis bookstore.
Gogol's scenes light up their surroundings, his characters flame into life, his tragicomic vision touches the reader's heart.
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Evernote's Web Clipper allows saving content with a click, and pages saved with Evernote Clearly are optimized for Reader's crisp E-Ink display.
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They re-energise the language, and by doing so, they serve to quicken the reader's soul.
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Reader's Digest fans were suckers for sweepstakes, and its mailings scored 20% response rates.
Sony Reader's second big weakness compared to the Kindle has been access to content.
The UI is quite barebones, with a homepage consisting of a straightforward list of the reader's contents.
By that stage the reader's trust in the author will already, so to speak, have gone south.
Each poem has an abstract illustration that draws in the reader's eye, expanding on the story within.
That changed in 1952, when Reader's Digest published "Cancer by the Carton, " an article detailing the dangers of smoking.
Amazon also removed an e-mail address included in a reader's review, which let Web surfers contact the reviewer directly.
Robert Muchamore won the older reader's category for his action-packed thriller about a special agent called Cherub: The Recruit.
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The device, which is clipped to a reader's glasses, buzzes when a book is brought too close to the face.
Launching of KASAYSAYAN: THE STORY OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, by the Asia Publishing Co. (Reader's Digest and A-Z Direct Marketing).
Reader's Digest, RG Steel, Dewey, Tribune and their bankruptcy lawyers either declined to comment or didn't respond to requests for comment.
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Cory Doctorow, the journalist, blogger and author, published a collection of stories, available in the reader's choice of four different covers.
Reader's Digest Association Chairman Thomas Ryder brought in Klingel and gave him a blank check to clean up the circulation mess.
Kindle Paperwhite's patented front-lit display guides light underneath an anti-glare layer and down toward the display, away from the reader's eyes.
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In fact, they should mourn as much as Reader's users are grieving.
Quietly ambitious, it is a book that stays in the reader's mind.
Reader's Digest presented itself as a guardian of American morality and values.
For better or worse, I have become attuned to the challenge of capturing the reader's attention in an era of micro-short attention spans.
The whole of the reader's body is covered in the sort of soft-touch material regularly used on phones, tablets and other mobile devices.
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