Whenever the browser detects an article, it lets the reader view the text in a clean, uncluttered fashion.
The company has also developed software to demonstrate its potential -- including an e-reader app that wraps text around any extended digit in order to preserve the flow of your text.
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And how are marginalia, so close to the act of reading and so intimately next to the text, different from the reader's diary?
The new version of the guide released Friday does not include such dramatically relaxed guidelines in its text, but directs the reader to similar recommendations made by other federal agencies and international organizations in various documents.
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As Lady Fate would have it, the company apparently outed a memo of the features on its French blog earlier today, but before it could yank the 'pull' switch, an eagle-eyed reader managed to grab the text and run it through -- surprise, surprise -- Google Translate.
However, unless a phrase appears repeatedly in written text, an acronym is usually more confusing to a reader than spelling it out.
By eliminating the need to retype text from print media onto the screen, Optical Character Reader saves users a great deal of time.
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"If we are seeing a decline in literacy standards among young children, it is in spite of text messaging, not because of it, " said Clare Wood, reader in developmental psychology.
Some of them rely on technology other than NFC, such as offering services that let people pay for purchases by sending text messages or by scanning product bar codes using a phone's QR-code reader.
Relying on Docu-Scope, a visualization and text-tagging software program, Witmore and his across-the-pond colleague Jonathan Hope, a reader at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, discovered at the level of grammar just how far Shakespeare was willing to break conventions.
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