For her new book, Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World, linguistics professor Naomi Baron conducted a survey of reading preferences among over 300 university students across the US, Japan, Slovakia and Germany.
After giving each person a risk score based on name, religion, travel history, reading preferences and so on, Mr Asher came up with a list of 1,200 "suspicious" individuals, which he handed to the FBI.
All my Internet connections, bank transactions, investments, purchases, medications, reading preferences and even my underwear size are stored in computers somewhere and available to those with proper access and to hackers at their will.
A nifty gift for anyone going on a pre-adulthood trip is a "destination kit" — a selection of fiction, nonfiction, and guidebooks compiled by the Idlewild staff and tailored to the recipient's interests, reading preferences, and travel style (Luxe versus Lonely Planet).
Unlike other sites, BookLikes considers factors such as reading preferences, general book information and social activity when providing a personal recommendation.
Table 3 RD values and reading preferences Type of pair Sample ( n) Mean RD value p value Matched buddy 95 0.665 ± 0.476 Random 95 0.894 ± 0.719 0.010 Women readers of fiction joined 'virtual book clubs' online at http://www.personalbookclub.com, rated and reviewed books, and selected one 'matched buddy' based on similarity of reading tastes.
With iOS 9.1 users will now get the News app on their homescreen, which lets them tap through set up to customize reading preferences — by choosing specific publications and also, if they wish, specifying particular topic preferences to power the content that populates the app.
I've seen them carry bags out to people's cars, I've seen them use their own money for supplies, I've seen them learn names, reading preferences, and educational interests for entire communities of individuals.
The individual subject analysis therefore indicated variability in reading preferences, as predicted on the basis of behavioral (e.g., Baron and Strawson 1976; Zevin and Balota 2000; Beech 2002; Snow 2002; Hyona and Nurminen 2006) and neuroimaging (Prat et al. 2007; Seghier, Lee, et al. 2008; Kherif et al. 2009) studies of reading.
