To cut to the chase, if you read old books you get a sense for how thin the searchable veneer of the web is on our world.

言归正传，如果你读过一些古书，就会发现web上可供搜索的内容是多么地少。

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He often read the priest's old books and got him to explain and enlarge upon them.

他经常阅读神甫的旧书，请他解释并扩展。

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She read many books to the old patients.

她给年长的病人读了很多书。

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Most of the day, the mother sat in her room and read old books, while Aryeh Zelnik listened to the radio in his room and built airplanes out of light wood.

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SmartBook represents a breakthrough achievement in reading, as it breaks the centuries-old tradition of books as linear experiences that presume to be read in their entirety, and in a pre-defined sequence, in order to be understood.

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The 65-year-old novelist has created the website ReadKiddoRead to help fathers find interesting books to read to their children.

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