Later, Bhadmus explained that the men were "free readers"; in a tradition dating back to military rule, free readers crowd around newsstands all over Lagos, reading the news and chatting about it.
It's possible that Amazon swung too late, what with Barnes and Noble and Kobo already having snatched up a lot of the "advanced e-reader" crowd.
The tablet is low cost, capable, and already a hit with the readering crowd.
Readers crowded about, one wanting to know whether the location in his memoir's title, The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue, was in Brooklyn or the Bronx.
This tone struck a chord with the prospective readers that crowd-funded the book's creation before a single word had been written.
One 19th-century reader described the crowd that gathered to hear a book: "They were clinging and clustering around the windows like bees, standing on chairs, looking through windows and listening, their faces tier upon tier".
It's a tricky proposition to write about ethnicity and not crowd readers with right thinking.
In the alternative 1990s, Clowes and his indie comics brethren could easily identify their readers in a crowd of comic convention attendees.
An enthusiastic crowd of readers, critics, and journalists attended.
Anyhow, Cramer wastes no time establishing his own version, crowding the reader with short, punchy sentences and leaving barely room for a second opinion.
But at the World Trade Center on Tuesday morning, the readers reminded the assembled crowd of relatives, friends, police officers, firefighters and politicians that even if the rest of the country seemed ready to move on, their grief, at least on this day, was still vivid.
