Along the top of the home screen are icons for home, battery life and a settings drop-down that offers up the date and time, a WiFI checkbox, more precise battery life reading, search and a notification showing the last time you synced your content to the cloud.
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The home screen looks like standard Android, save for some tweaks, including large book icons and a bar at the bottom with links to the Kobo Shop, your current reading selection, the library, a full app list and the so-called Reading Life social feature.
Although the books and audiovisual resources give inmates a general opportunity in any case to direct their thoughts away from the prison environment, the main value of the prison library is in providing its users with the option of further education and self-reflection, obtaining life skills and improving their reading skills.
Below this are links to your Library, the Store and Kobo's Reading Life social network.
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In order to promote effective learning, ALTA gives every learner individual attention and uses a variety of real-life reading materials, including simplified newspaper articles, information leaflets on health and disaster preparedness, and food and medicine labels.
She hopes the extra time will help bring students up to their grade level in reading, vocabulary, math, science and life skills.
Giorgio and Clara drift around scenes of his life at the military quarters, reading aloud their letters to one another across time and space.
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Reading, going to work and navigating a busy life may be enough to maintain brain health, but lifting performance takes massive amounts of practice--learning a new language, taking regular music lessons, doing complex jigsaw puzzles--to produce enough chemicals to make synapses stronger.
Lumbly makes you believe that this Johnny Appleseed of reading and writing would return to slavery from a free life up North and risk mutilation in order to continue his teaching.
When he attended college in Cairo, he undertook a study of Jewish life there, associating with Jews and reading the works of Zionists such as Theodor Herzl.
However, she is also a young woman who has spent most of her life trapped in a tower, reading books and interacting only with her monstrous guardian, Songbird, and is experiencing Columbia for the first time.
This knowledge was honed by decades of reading the classics of conservative thought and having spent much of his life publicly debating those whose views were diametrically opposed to his.
Ismaiel also tells his own story: of life in a remote village and hunger for reading, of student years in Teheran and political activism, and then later the acceptance of exile.
The most common motivation was not having enough time for the site, with 21% of people saying they were just too busy with real-life responsibilities to spend time reading posts, liking and commenting.
Both are well worth reading, partly because Rand's life was so extraordinary and partly because the questions that she raised about the proper power of government are just as urgent now as they ever were.
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After three years, however, disappointed by his judicial career, he gave up public life and spent some time, perhaps even years, reading and travelling.
Reading Life is Kobo's attempt to make reading more social and fun -- if you're going out and buying your own e-reader, however, we assume you're already at least somewhat convinced that reading is entertaining.
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" It came in response to a humanist ad reading: "There's probably no God: now stop worrying and enjoy your life.
Besides reading about the good and the bad days, Carter was welcoming all of us into his life for the final time to say goodbye.
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"But then my life became science fiction, " he said, explaining why he's reading more Shakespeare and Dickens these days.
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