Instead of deriding the eBook as a profit-killer, why not unite our old ideas of reading alone in quiet rooms with the vast potential created by new technology?
Cases involving minor crimes are now argued orally in front of a judge, instead of the judge reading mounds of papers alone in chambers.
And so Lee spent the next five months virtually alone, reading Russian novels, writing a math textbook and leaving his cell for only one hour a day.
Yet, the average adult today would have difficulty reading Common Sense, let alone understanding the arguments, and articulating the basic premise.
When he arrived, he spent 10 minutes alone there, reading a note left for him on a desk by outgoing President George W. Bush.
That alone makes it essential reading for anyone intrigued by South Africa's complex philosopher-king.
It seems to serve a different purpose now, a couple of older gentlemen shuffling in and out of the library during the three hours we spend there, each staying quiet, seated alone at a small table, reading novels and history books from off the shelves.
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Mr. CHARLTON HESTON (actor, Reading): He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he'd gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
More than 100, 000 stories have been sent in to the White House website alone, and they continue to make for powerful reading.
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American trompe l'oeil is one of the surprises of this exhibition (for this reason alone the catalogue essay by Mark Mitchell is well worth reading).
And when not reading he was writing: letters, diaries, poems, 250, 000 words during the war alone.
Given the impact that the report may have upon the extent to which claims data alone can trigger lengthy, expensive, and burdensome audits and investigations, the report should be critical reading for health care providers and the counsel upon whom they rely.
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