A large book of potions, 4-by-2 1/2 feet, which the staff has unofficially named "the enchanted book," uses touch technology, electronically read by sensors hidden inside the pages.
An identification number linked GP responses to the responses of their patients.> In most countries, paper questionnaires were sent by mail to GPs and returned by mail to the national coordinator and then electronically read into the European database by a professional data management company.
The Taunton Public Library sustained Andrea from the age of six, and she still checks books out from there electronically and reads two a week on a Nexus tablet.
She wants all counties to use optical scan machines that read and electronically record paper ballots that are filled in manually by voters.
An overarching trend that has fueled the Postal Service's crisis — and reduced annual mail volume by 22 percent since 2006 — is that Americans are e-mailing, paying bills electronically and reading shopping catalogs and news online.
Now, resumes are usually stored electronically and read by a human being after appearing in the search results for a keyword search through the resumes or applications.
Wal-Mart employees clock in and out by swiping their identity badges, which the time clock reads electronically.
CyberBills is a scanning service that reads bills electronically and then posts them online for consumers to view.
Worn inside a jacket pocket, the card can be read electronically at the lift turnstile.
That said, more and more, Americans are reading electronically, and, with the improvements in cellular technology, this reading is increasingly on cell phones.
Marlena Bittner, a spokeswoman for Reagan Arthur Books, said 35,000 copies had been printed, a strong sign of support from the publisher when so much fiction is read electronically.
