Experts: Here's how screen reading differs from print reading

Posted on 03/23/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Whether you prefer your books in print, electronic, or audio, you’ll likely agree that the experience is different from medium...

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Tagged As: Reading, The New York Times

On reading a book by a female author from every single country

Posted on 03/08/2021 at 11:55 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The 2021 theme for International Women’s Day is Choose to Challenge. So it seemed more than fitting that the Guardian...

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Tagged As: Literature in translation, Reading, The Guardian, Women in literature

Good news: Your book collection could earn you $1,000

Posted on 02/17/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Anyone else read the news today and cringe? We have a (brief) respite from it: the knowledge that there is...

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Tagged As: Awards, Just for fun, Reading

OverDrive: Yep, 2020 was a big year for ebooks

Posted on 01/07/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Surely no one is surprised to hear that OverDrive is reporting a huge increase in digital borrowing for 2020. Driven...

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Tagged As: Audiobook, E-reader, Libraries, Reading

You tell us: 2021's reading resolutions

Posted on 01/02/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Among the many reasons to be excited that 2021 has begun is that we get to start all over again...

Tagged As: Reader stories, Reading

Infographic: How the world read in 2020

Posted on 11/16/2020 at 09:03 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A new infographic just might answer all the questions you had about other people’s reading habits. Global English Editing took...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Reading

Study explains what readers love about George R.R. Martin's books

Posted on 11/04/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Sometimes fans can articulate what about a particular work draws them in so deeply. Other times, we resort to saying...

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Tagged As: Reading

Publisher: Sales of long classic novels have risen in 2020

Posted on 11/03/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Many readers decided to find the silver lining of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns and bump up their book consumption....

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Reading, The Guardian

Study: Literary fiction and popular fiction both benefit us, in differing ways

Posted on 10/28/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Let’s open our post on a recent study of the effects of reading with a huge caveat. The researchers themselves...

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Tagged As: Reading

Study links simpler images to greater reading comprehension in kids

Posted on 10/12/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Buzzkill warning: a new study seems to call for less artwork and more words in children’s books. Literary Hub shared...

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Tagged As: Children's literature, Literary Hub, Reading