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You don't have motivation to pick up your book at all. If this is you, the dreaded reading slump has arrived. It could be because you read a book so good nothing else compares.

"I'm a lifelong book lover," she said. "I have my own little library going on (at home)." Kropivec is a hybrid, though, also reading books on an Amazon Kindle.

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There are some things I'd love to see it gain in the future, like comics and the option to display pages side by side for reading book-style on a foldable, but it's a great start as it is ...

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Reading itself, the act of reading, has its own linear left-to-right momentum: It would seem to sort of naturally speed up the further into a book you go.