As with the Indy site, there are labels that are hardly reader-friendly for the swift surfer: "essentials, explainers, distractions, opinion".
I am, let me add quickly, a living witness to this: my father is the son of a Jewish immigrant butcher and grocer, a wise man but hardly a reader.
Mr. Safire's "new patriotism" will hardly reassure readers who still deeply revere our heritage of independence, but believe that multilateral cooperation is essential for the world's prosperity and security.
Not being much of a reader hardly affected the ascent of George W. Bush or his father.
"I'm out of it," Bickerton writes — though the reader hardly believes his modesty.
Yet he is hardly the first reader to notice that a preoccupation with the afterlife runs throughout "Pale Fire".
The film brings out something that might hardly strike the reader, and makes a subtly cinematic point of it.
"This little book,"wrote the Observer, "is so entertaining as well as acute that the reader hardly notices that it is learned too".
After Meno spends two chapters introducing Odile and Jack, the reader hardly needs to begin Chapter 3 to know that these unhappy hipsters will meet and find solace in each other's arms.
Written at feverish speed to help pay off gambling debts, its plot is convoluted and often wildly improbable - yet the reader hardly notices, as the narrative is so compelling.
The minds of Paul and Cora, the male and female centres of the novel's two mirroring halves, are so fully occupied by this most astute and sympathetic of writers, that the reader hardly questions their weirdest and least wise moves.
