Sentence examples for competitive readers from inspiring English sources

Still, if you, like me, come from a family of competitive readers and are further hampered by being kind of cheap, you might just stick with the wrong book out of sheer boneheadedness -- and the hell with enjoying your vacation.

And the construction of a canon — the choice of which poems ought to be assigned to students at various grade levels — grew out of a collision of nationalistic zeal, piety, commercial enterprise (the success or failure of various competitive "readers" — what we would call textbooks), thoughtless imitation, and a fair amount of what looks like happenstance.

Well, it's like this: my husband had loved "How the Mind Works," and as he and I are competitive readers, I knew that if I gave up on it, I would lose the advantage I'd held over him ever since I'd finished reading Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" while I was pregnant with my first child.

And the construction of a canon the choice of which poems ought to be assigned to students at various grade levels grew out of a collision of nationalistic zeal, piety, commercial enterprise (the success or failure of various competitive "readers"—what we would call textbooks), thoughtless imitation, and a fair amount of what looks like happenstance.

And so: the winner of our first-ever, highly competitive reader's poll is Zelda Fitzgerald.

After testing the only five competitive ebook readers available in the US, we can say that the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is the right choice for almost everyone.

At 1,000 wpm and above, you're reaching the level of competitive speed readers.

The big problem with speed reading is comprehension – Anne Jones, the current top competitive speed reader, set a 2001 competition record of 2,246wpm with a 60% comprehension rate.

Developed by a Boston company of the same name, it's an add-on for e-reader apps that aims to let you blitz through a book at up to 1,000 words per minute (wpm), a speed comparable with competitive speed-readers.

But the crowded and highly competitive feed reader space, dominated by Bloglines, Newsgator and others, was a tough playground to hang out in.

While it spun cycles mulling what to sell in its in-store canteens, Barnes & Noble made important strides developing a competitive e-reader.