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The reason seems to be absurdly plain: readers recognize poetry by its appearance on the page, and they respond to the convention whereby they recognize it by reading it aloud in a quite different tone of voice from that which they apply to prose (which, indeed, they scarcely read aloud at all).
The team finds its content through a custom curation CMS, RSS feeds, social, search and plain old reader suggestions.
In fact, slightly more children reported having read a book on a tablet than on a plain e-reader device.
Still, "nature" is a sufficiently vague term and the context is often sufficiently plain that readers sensitive to this issue will usually be able to avoid missing the point of Xunzi's claims.
From the way he envisions this western mini-utopia -- as a vast Tolstoyan property filled with the laughter of his many children and emotionally anchored by the devoted wife that he has yet to meet but knows he will -- it's plain to the reader, if not to Kerouac, that he dare not try to make it real because the place will only disappoint him.
And at this juncture in the internet's evolution it seems very plain, Dear Online Reader, that you are mostly being served a tsunami of content — accelerated into your attention trough by click-dependent digital business models that require a steady stream of word fodder to engage eyeballs long enough to ambush them with ads.
The Time Inc. executives said advertisers were not committing to the fall issues because the magazine was too plain to attract readers.
While the Nook Color may be a popular tablet for hacking, it's also just a plain ol' e-reader — or so they say.
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