These print subscribers also prefer their app-based news to be more like a traditional reading experience rather than to have high-tech features.
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Such poetry aside, there was still a sense of doom permeating the industry, even if it wasn't directly linked to the devices that would eclipse more traditional reading vectors in the not-so-distant future.
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Maybe South Africa (where I live) is still clinging to a traditional reading culture, but the bookshop was bright, colourful, filled with the latest releases and had a huge display of all kinds of books devoted to The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, both movie and book guides.
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And traditional forms of reading, such as with books (even e-books), is something that boys at least do more rarely.
For several months, the Women of the Wall group has held prayers in the female side, wearing traditional shawls and reading aloud from the Torah.
Again, transferring a traditional activity of reading with your children from a physical book to duplicating that experience digitally, complete with touch, topped with interactivity with the page, words and sound.
Torchieres or floor lamps with an upward glow or more traditional shade brighten corners and reading nooks and add extra light to a dark room.
In many cases, they are just reading digitized versions of traditional printed books.
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But you probably also discover new books through social media, seeing them in bookstores, reading book reviews and even through traditional advertising.
In a survey of 1, 100 participants, 63% said they rely more on traditional news organizations and less on aggregators when reading news on the tablet.
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Similarly, a rollover from a pre-tax 401(k), 403(b) or 457(b) plan into a traditional IRA also qualifies, as well as a rollover from a SIMPLE IRA and SEP-IRA to a traditional IRA. Rules and restrictions apply, so keep reading.
Flash as a form of solid state storage is much faster for reading and writing data than the spinning disks in traditional disk drives.
For example, the iPad offers a beautiful canvas for reading books, but the size and heft discourage the traditional curling-up with a page-turner.
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States with reading and maths gains that were significantly higher for charter-school students than in traditional schools included Arkansas, Colorado (Denver), Illinois (Chicago), Louisiana and Missouri.
The problem with traditional barcodes is that when they are rendered on a smartphone, screen glare can prevent a scanner from reading them correctly.
But after reading a countryside magazine he hit on the idea of joining the growing number of farmers forgoing the traditional sheep and dairy herds, in favour of alpacas.
It is true, for instance, that the vast majority of blogs are not worth reading and, in fact, are not read (although the same is true of much in traditional newspapers).
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Social Experience: Reading has traditionally been a solitary activity, which may explain the growing appeal of blog-reporting over traditional newspapers: through comments and follow-up posts, the text talks back.
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