Readers of literary fiction quit books more often and tend skip around between books.

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You can watch from beginning to end or skip around on the timeline.

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You can, of course, pause live TV and skip around, but the scrub bar also shows up when you're watching recorded programs.

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It is easy to search by word or phrase and skip around on a tablet, or pull up references such as a dictionary or thesaurus.

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Of course, online ads have the advantage of being forced upon viewers, whereas DVR owners can skip around if they're okay with viewing timeshifted material.

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"When I was stressed, I would kind of skip around in circles for long periods of time for no reason to calm myself down, " Downs tells the group.

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You see, I'm a long-distance runner, a marathoner, and those pinchable, inline controls meant I could skip songs without feeling around for a button or taking my eyes off the road.

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He has started to write his memoirs, which will skip the usual format and be organised around a series of 12 momentous decisions.

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Whatever happens in the coming weeks and months, the French holiday will hang around Ieuan Wyn Jones' neck, just as one decision to skip a D-Day commemoration in favour of a golf event did for Rhodri Morgan.

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Most people skip the introductory video to games after the first viewing, but you may want to reconsider this time around.

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