And it's easy to get trapped reading multiple books at once, thanks to Amazon's ecosystem.

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In Ghana, for example, sixth-graders sitting a simple multiple-choice reading test scored on average the same mark that would be gained by random guessing.

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Publishers have been bombarding readers with display ads that overlay stories, and breaking up stories across multiple pages of poor reading experience for the sake of additional ad impressions.

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