Google is expanding its suite of apps designed for the Indian market with today’s launch of a new language-learning app aimed at children, called Bolo. The app, which is aimed at elementary school-aged students, leverages technology like Google’s speech recognition and text-to-speech to help kids learn to read in both Hindi and English. To do […]
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Winter break must-haves: Hot chocolate (Baileys optional), a ridiculously big blanket, and books.
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Steve Jobs famously once said that people don’t read anymore, but it turns out younger people are, in fact, reading quite a lot – just in different ways than expected. Case in point: 70 million readers log in to online community Wattpad each month, where they spend over 22 billion minutes engaged in its original […]
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Happy spooky season, friends. Who’s up for the adult version of trick-or-treating? (It’s books instead of candy — time to get lit.)
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This fall pick-me-up comes at the right time — because how great is October for adults really? We get awkward office costume parties, half-off ciders during happy hour, and if you’re special, your first cold of the season. The real world is way scarier than any slasher film, and I’ll take a distracting audiobook any day. Read more…
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Last year, Mozilla made its first acquisition by snatching up Pocket, the Instapaper competitor that helps you save longer articles for later reading. Today, this popular reading app is getting a major update that gives its app a visual makeover, including a new dark mode, and most importantly, a better way to listen to the […]
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Apple’s new and improved iBooks app, now called Apple Books, has popped up on iPhones across the world today with the release of iOS 12, the software update available to download as of this morning. The new app has five tabs: Reading Now, Library, Book Store, Search and, for the first time, a dedicated Audiobooks tab. […]
View More Apple’s iBooks revamp, Apple Books, is hereAmazon’s children’s book subscription ‘Prime Book Box’ opens to all in the U.S.
Amazon today publicly launched a new perk for Prime members with young children, with the broad release of the new subscription-based “Prime Book Box” service. The $22.99 per box offering ships Prime members in the U.S. a curated selection of kids’ books every 1, 2 or 3 months, at up to 35% off the list […]
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Thanks to the Internet, a lot of us are now drowning in a giant sea of words. It’s likely that you have a million tabs open on your browser with articles you swear you will read and an inbox brimming with unopened emails. It’s also possible that your e-book queue is already accumulating virtual dust because you haven’t touched it in so long. It’s not entirely your fault, though. All these reading materials — with their chunks of black and white paragraphs — aren’t exactly what you would call enticing, even if the headlines or titles seem promising.
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View More This speed reading tool helps you breeze through text and is on sale for under $30The NYT adds a personalized ‘news feed’ to its iOS app
The New York Times announced on Friday how it’s adding its own take on Facebook-style News Feed to its mobile app. Yes, literally a news feed. The publication says it will now allow its iOS app users to customize their reading experience through a new feature called “Your Feed,” which consists only of those channels […]
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Tomorrow is August, guys. As in oh shit, it’s August, and if you procrastinated on the summer goals you made for yourself in May (raises hand), you’re probably feeling that guilt.
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You know how they say people only use 10% of their brain? Yeah, it turns out, that’s total bullshit.
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