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A reading experiment: reading Little Dorrit in new and old formats

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03 July 2009How do you read your books? As an audiobook, paperback or in a digital form?

Ann Kirschner decided to read the almost thousand-page Charles Dickens classic Little Dorrit in four ways: the traditional hardcopy, as an audiobook, using a Kindle and with an iPhone. She compares the reading experience and there's really only one loser. Guess which one it is.

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