Reading
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- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." --Groucho Marx
Reading is a skill of constructing meaning (interpretation) and/or gaining knowledge from text.
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See also
- Dyslexia
- The reading experience
- Reading (process)
- History of reading
- Great Books
- Literacy: with some exceptions, only a small percentage of the population in many countries was considered literate before the Industrial Revolution. Reading as a means of consuming fiction was at the height of its popularity in the 19th century.
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