Reading

The ability to read may be the most common skill of all Technorati visitors.

Offline reading of books, magazines, and newspapers is a common activity for many bloggers and they often happily blog their reading adventures. From reviewing books to sharing passages or concepts, there is a common passion for the written word. Some bloggers list their reading plans.

Online reading includes both blogs and non-blog web pages and documents. Some documents can be read online or downloaded for offline reading. Frequently these use formats such as Adobe's Acrobat PDF, like How CGI Works.

For some bloggers, reading refers to fortune telling or divination technique. Examples include numerology, tarot, and astrology.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Reading”

• Book Title Meme

  
  Crone and Bear It — Authority: 124
  My friend Sandy from It’s A Jungle Out There coaxed me into trying a Book Title Meme.  Sounded intriguing.  Here are her rules: Using only books you have read this year (2009) answer the following questions.  Try not to repeat a book title.  It’s a lot harder than you think! (Actually, Sandy, it wasn’t ...
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• Review: Manson the Musical (End Times Productions)

  
  A Walk In The Park — Authority: 125
  What do New Coke, ham and pineapple pizza, stirrup pants, Lady Ga-ga, writing your own wedding vows, reality TV, heat-resistant sauce pans, and Clamato all have in common? They’re all really bad ideas. Now you can add “a musical about the Charles Manson murders” to the list. “ Manson: The Musical ?” ...
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• Learning To Fight

  
  sammytaylor.net — Authority: 121
  Learning To Fight is a blog written by Claire Berlinski. Those who know me will recognize a frequent theme of mine in this post. The human propensity for violence is undeniable, and makes the human capacity for civilization all the more amazing.Claire’s biography of Margaret Thatcher, There Is No Alternative, is ...
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• Please give me answers

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 166
  I have contacted several people about these questions, everytime I trie myself I fail. I can´t stay neutral because I got scars from the past and I haven´t got any answers from people I´ve asked because they all want money and I can´t afford giving anyone money. I need to know the following: Who of Tom and Bill ...
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• Best Electronic Gifts For Christmas 2009

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 560
  The Christmas shopping season is in full swing and there are some great deals out there in electronics. If you’re looking for some of the Best Electronic Gifts for this year then you’ve come to the right place. There are a total of 5 top electronics for this years shopping season. Each [...]
  5 hours ago

• How to Avoid Ending Up on a VH1 Reality TV Show

  
  ModLife — Authority: 138
  “Every era has its own concept of charm,” reads the first sentence of Helen Valentine and Alice Thompson’s Better than Beauty . So where should we look to find the epitome of charm today? The Jerry Springer Show? MTV’s The Hills? Surely some hint of it must be seen on VH1’s Charm School 3 with Ricki Lake, ...
  6 hours ago

• iDaily

  
  iPhone Application Gallery - appsafari.com — Authority: 435
  Need to make small talk at the dinner table? Just pull out your iPhone and fire up Sax.net’s free app, iDaily. Sure, it’ll probably be awkwardly random small talk, but at least it’s something to break the ice.iDaily is an app that gives you four options to choose from: Birthdays, Nature, History, [...]
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• links for 2009-11-11

  
  Media Influencer — Authority: 124
  What happens to your email when you die? | News | News.com.au (tags: death email estate personaldata mydata ) 10 open source projects worth checking out | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com (tags: open opensource projects development ) YouTube – ...
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• This Thanksgiving, We’re Thankful For: The Foodie’s Philadelphia

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 562
  The Arroz de Langosta dish at Jose Garces Amada, Tacconellis Pizza and pie at Reading Terminal Market: Delicious from start to finish. (Photos courtesy of Amada, by J. Smith and G. Widman) For the third installment of our Thanksgiving series, the spotlight’s on: Food, glorious food! Thanksgiving isn’t just ...
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• The best (and worst) children’s books of 2009

  
  Christchurch City Libraries Blog — Authority: 132
  My favourite book of 2009 Next Wednesday (18 November) the annual Best and Worst Books of the Year event is being held at Upper Riccarton library from 7:30-9pm.  Everybody is invited to come along and hear from librarians, booksellers, publishers and authors about what their favourite books were this year.  ...
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• On My Nightstand: A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 525
  A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, by Ronald and Allis Radosh, recounts the events leading up to the founding of the state of Israel, specifically examining the conduct of President Truman and those advising him on the matter.It examines the conduct of the US and British following the end of ...
  7 hours ago

• WWW Wednesdays: 11 November 2009

  
  Joy's Blog — Authority: 122
  WWW Wednesdays is a new meme hosted by mizb17 over at Should Be Reading. It asks three (3) questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Embarrassingly, my answers for this week are pretty much the same as last week:... [...]
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• Colorado Conservative Makes the Latest Bonehead GOP Quote of the Day

  
  Alternative Tulsa — Authority: 128
  T he wingnut branch of the Republican Party has a gift for overstatement. They cant just disagree with the president or his policies. Oh no. They have to accuse him of being a Muslim or a Fascist or a Communist or the Anti-Christ or, better yet, all of the above. Heres the latest example of ...
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• Review: Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow

  
  Books on the Brain — Authority: 110
  Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow is a work of fiction and a first person narrative about two real life men, the eccentric Collyer brothers of New York, who were killed by their own filth and clutter in their home in 1947. I’m a fan of the show Hoarders on A & E.  The compulsion to accumulate and never ...
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• The Door in the Lake

  
  Confuzzledom — Authority: 116
  The other day I read a book from the list , The Door in the Lake by Nancy Butts . That’s 4 books down and another… oh, at least two hundred to go. And I’m adding new ones all the time. (Just so you know, the link up there takes you to the short version of the list. The actual list is a physical one… ...
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• “He Knows When to Turn the Light Sabre On:” Obama and Washington One Year Later

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  Washington DC is so stuck in its traditions it is literally the land that time and technology forgot. Press galleries off the House and Senate floors are musty old museum chambers lined with musty... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• A constant disappointment

  
  Mr London Street — Authority: 509
  On the face of it my childhood history teacher Miss Close was totally unremarkable, but that didn’t stop her dispensing one of the most valuable and formative lessons I ever learned in my life. Although I should add that it wasn’t directly to me and I don’t think it was quite the lesson she had intended. Anyway, ...
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• Pointed, pointless questions.

  
  Althouse — Authority: 737
  You — I mean YOU — do realize that in the context of the post you are mocking "Why has the United States sent this woman?" is a thought satirically attributed to Merkel and Sarkozy? Or, oh, hell, what does it matter? Why actually read and understand anything written by people who are on my shit list? Clue: ...
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• What We’re Reading 11/11/09

  
  ONE — Authority: 489
  New York Times: Administration Names Agriculture Official to Run U.S. Aid Agency, Ending DelaysThe Obama administration on Tuesday named Rajiv J. Shah, a medical doctor and health economist at the Agriculture Department, to run its main foreign aid arm, the United States Agency for International Development. ...
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• The Future Of Unemployment

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  By Caitlin Kenney Economist Mark Thoma has a new blog over at MoneyWatch, and he’s kicking it off with some interesting talk about unemployment . Today he asks whether there will be “a new normal” for unemployment once the recession is over. Here’s a taste: I expect structural unemployment to be higher ...
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