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Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading

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'Whatever our current travails, we now have a literate president capable of coherent discourse, but too many other politicians are devoid of syntax and appear to have read nothing. Aggressive ignorance in aspirants to high office is another dismal consequence of the waning of authentic education.'

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This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place...

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Links to numerous blogs about books, comics, and reading

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"It's an old and reassuring story: bookish boy or girl enters the cool, dark library and discovers loneliness and freedom. For the past ten years or so, however, the cities of the book have been anything but quiet. "

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'But none of that was on my mind recently, as I was trying to distract my grumpy 6-year-old, and somehow began telling him the glorious fable of a man who had been exposed to cosmic rays until he could stretch his limbs like rubber, and how that man, “Mr. Fantastic,” battled evil aided by his fiancé, who could turn herself invisible, and her kid brother, a human torch, and their friend Ben Grimm, an orange, rocky “Thing.”'

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List of college/university required common readings

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Portal to websites on children's literature. Annotated.

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Educational material in government agencies' collections: primary sources, animations, photos, videos--history, literature, science, etc.

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"Presto! We have a correlation between books and dumbitude (smartitude too)!
Books <=> Colleges <=> Average SAT Scores"

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By Mandy Brown. "Despite the ubiquity of reading on the web, readers remain a neglected audience. Much of our talk about web design revolves around a sense of movement: users are thought to be finding, searching, skimming, looking. We measure how frequent

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"compilation, analysis and publication of comprehensive trend data about the humanities." includes data on primary, secondary, undergraduate and graduate education, the workforce, etc.

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"NaturalReader is a Text to Speech software with natural sounding voices. This easy to use software can convert any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words."

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"What about the physical process of reading on a screen? How does that compare to paper?"

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Peter Rabbit books, merchandise, illustrations, interactive games, etc.

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"Even authors who were once wary of selling their work in bits and bytes are coming around."

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