I, for one, won't ever forget the blind seer Tiresias "reading the future" of the city of Thebes by searching Baidu for a prophecy!

对于我来说，我永远不会忘记那个眼睛瞎掉的先知提瑞，用百度搜索来预言底比斯城的未来！

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Under these circumstances, the question of what future there is for the arts of reading is a real one.

在这些情况下，阅读这门技艺未来将会如何是一个现实的问题。

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Recently, the result of the national reading survey has been announced and it paints a brighter future for reading habits in the Internet times.

最近，全国阅读调查的结果已经公布，它展示了互联网时代阅读习惯的光明前景。

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With the future of reading heading squarely in the direction of electronic devices, what to do with the old timey book form?

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As the tablet wars continue, and devices intended exclusively for reading are traded in for multimedia entertainment systems, what will the future of reading look like?

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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.

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