This isn't to say that physical books are perfect – perhaps if we read off of giant scrolls laid out across a gymnasium floor, I'd have an even better memory of where I saw a fact: "upper left quadrant, approximately the fourth row…" or something like that.
"If we read the history of the two movements, the Badrists and the Mahdi Army, we see that both were military factions turned into political powers.
Mails now idle, but if we read energetic women of this country aright, presses are already busy printing further appeals to finance a society to produce population.
Brenner argued that the human genome contains extensive information about the historical and biological properties of our species, and that even if we read the 'Cliffnote' version of the genome, the exons only, we can extract an enormous amount of information that could be translated into genomic medicine.
If we read a reduced degree of concern for training and welfare into the use of bindings to the cotton industry, then this pattern reinforces Horrell and Humphries' statement that parish apprenticeship was moving towards 'a harsher and less tolerant institution', at least up to the turn of the century.
But are we more inclined to believe that gold has an atomic number of 79 if we read it in Georgia, the typeface of The New York Times online, rather than in Helvetica?
If we read the voluminous "terms of service" agreements that we check yes to in return for these free services, we'd see that the providers of "free" services were very candid about how they'd use our personal information".
However we can find out what helps children grow and what cripples them, and if we read about the background of Nicholas Tate, we can clearly see he had the latter.
The difference, of course, is that "The Hunting of the Snark" - touching though it may be - really is only intended to amuse, even if we read it as an evocation of the quest for the meaning of life.
Confession comes to life again if we read it alongside The Death of Ivan Ilyich rather than alongside the religious essays with which it is usually grouped.
