Battery life is good, especially if you manually lock the touchscreen portion of the unit: this allows you to use the e-reader portion for considerably longer periods.
But who will tell the reader what portion is fact and what fantasy?
— Piet Hein Princeton University Press has generously offered to share with Numberplay readers a portion of the autobiography — the chapter in which Mr. Gardner tells the story of his longtime affiliation with Scientific American, which hosted his monthly Mathematical Games column.
To this reader the theoretical portion is not faithful to any of his champions, but is a dog's breakfast of "theoretical" postures gathered from Derrida, Cavell, de Man, Rorty, Foucault, and Frederic Jameson as well as from those named above.
I won't spoil the surprise by revealing exactly what we'll be publishing this month, but I will say this: My hope is that our series will introduce our cisgender readers to a portion of the community that has, for the most part, been overlooked by the Jewish press.
The story of Mark and Teddy takes up the bulk of the second half of "What I Loved" and its sensationalistic tone and implausible events not only fail to mesh with the finely observed first half of the novel, but also threaten to erase the memories the reader has of that portion -- an unfortunate development for a book that got off to such a promising start.
To mark where a certain sound begins or ends, users need only highlight the passage and the audio will be played as a reader scrolls to that portion of the text.
The information from the back of the book is a natural choice for excision, they say, because of the prevailing view that only a small portion of readers use the material.
So distinctive is his style of expression that in many instances the reader can distinguish those portions genuinely by Amos from parts probably invented by others, such as the concluding, optimistic section foretelling the restoration of the Davidic kingdom.
We hope that this survey draws readers into the research portion of the journal.
