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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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.
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.
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.
It's a small detail, and if it were absent, it wouldn't detract from the e-reader.
"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.
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.
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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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!"
"The average reader of The Wall Street Journal simply won't be able to identify these market-beating advisers, " he says.
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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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.
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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Even with its outsized price, the new iRex reader won't offer two features also missing from other electronic books: color and video capability.
Anything that can't be pronounced stops the verbal music, makes the reader stumble and marks the writer as a nitwit.
Of course, if the investor on your list isn't much of a reader, one could always give a bottle champagne.
It wasn't clear at the end who the criminal was, and the reader was forced to draw his or her own conclusions.
They have known for some time that an online reader isn't worth as much as one from the print world.
If you're headed on vacation, you shouldn't have an issue loading up tons of titles onto the 2GB e-reader, but what if you decide you want to buy a book you saw someone reading on the plane?
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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Amazon had been hoping to target the market with its 9.7-inch screen Kindle DX e-book reader, for example, but schools said the device wasn't sufficiently interactive and lacked basics such as page numbers and color graphics.
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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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Reader is sold in the U.S., but it isn't yet adapted for newspaper and magazine subscriptions.
It, too, has a memory card reader for MicroSD cards, just in case you wanted to offload some photos and didn't have the tablet in its PC Station stand.
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