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If you don't hook the reader from the start, you may not catch her at all.
You can't make the reader love you in the first sentence or paragraph, but you can lose the reader right away.
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Of course, if the investor on your list isn't much of a reader, one could always give a bottle champagne.
The Kindle's light however, is hard to spot, thanks in part to a much thinner bezel: you can't just angle the reader and see the lights here.
That's where iRex could take a lesson: A good e-reader doesn't need to show off--it needs to disappear.
They have known for some time that an online reader isn't worth as much as one from the print world.
As a result, the reader isn't merely impressed with the fruits of wild imagination but consumes them, internalizes and identifies with them.
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Even with its outsized price, the new iRex reader won't offer two features also missing from other electronic books: color and video capability.
Here's the thing: the fact that the Kobo e-reader isn't a multitasker like the iPad and newer "hybridized" devices might not signal its failure in any way.
For example, the RFID reader doesn't work well in games like Countdown where it must read several XS bands within milliseconds of being slapped down together on top of the console.
Newspapers have a love-hate relationship with the Kindle as the larger, broadsheet-readable version of the e-reader isn't as popular as its smaller counterpart, says Seth Jayson, analyst at The Motley Fool.
That chin is removable, and hides the phone's SIM and microSD card slots (this might be a good time to remind everyone that you won't find a memory card reader on the 8X).
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Indeed, when Rees raises the prospect that the atom-smashers may not compact the planet, but instead create a novel vacuum that eliminates our galaxy, the reader can't resist a sci-fi cry of "coool!"
So, if the Kobo reader isn't quite the future of reading devices, it's certainly firmly entrenched in the present, with enough likeable qualities at a price point that few could argue with, to keep it on our list of readers we wouldn't mind spending a night at home curled up with on the sofa, reading Wuthering Heights while our significant other plays Red Dead Redemption.
It's a small detail, and if it were absent, it wouldn't detract from the e-reader.
It's a bit difficult to master, but we find it's more efficient if you put a little bit of your fingernail into it -- not too much, of course, you don't want to scratch your precious reader.
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Farther down are two links that let you toggle between books you've downloaded and titles stored in the cloud, a pretty great addition that makes it much easier to access anything you've purchased but haven't yet downloaded to your new reader.
Just a week ago the University of Georgia revealed that many of its study participants -- Athens residents who were given a Kindle to play with -- weren't happy with their e-reader experience, but yesterday a new study reported something fairly contrasting.
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"If the newspaper has one reader, and the book store has another reader and the magazine publisher has another reader, it just doesn't make any sense, " he said.
Look, the new Sony Reader PRS-505 isn't perfect -- it's only the first device among the second generation (ok, technically third generation) of e-ink based eBook readers.
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Anything that can't be pronounced stops the verbal music, makes the reader stumble and marks the writer as a nitwit.
"The average reader of The Wall Street Journal simply won't be able to identify these market-beating advisers, " he says.
Sony has all but confirmed that it will announce a new version of its Reader in early October, though it won't share any details.
Still, it weighs about the same as the XPS 12, despite having a larger footprint, and it also claims longer battery life. (We've yet to test it ourselves.) The Yoga also offers some things the XPS 12 doesn't -- namely, an HDMI port and memory card reader.
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But even in South Africa, Net 1 hasn't moved beyond 4, 000 merchants that use its smart card reader.
It wasn't clear at the end who the criminal was, and the reader was forced to draw his or her own conclusions.
What I find interesting is that the reader -- as a proud American worker -- didn't hesitate to make the demand and, in fact, he felt that earning any less would be beneath him.
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