Learn to Read All Over Again With This Spectacular Speculative Story

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io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M. Yoachim.

Cursive Handwriting Could Make Your Idiot Kid Smarter, Study Suggests

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There’s a glimmer of hope if you’re looking for last-ditch strategies to save your child from the halls of stupidity. A study published this week in the journal Frontiers of Psychology found that good ol’ cursive handwriting seems better at promoting learning than typing, and if we want to pump smarter kids out of our…

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Kindle Scribe review: A solid writeable e-reader with limited appeal

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The Kindle Scribe is the brand's latest e-reader that you can write on.

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Kindle (2022) review: Amazon's basic e-reader is better than ever

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The 11th-generation Kindle stands out with its simple, easy-to-use design.

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I use ChatGPT to write stories for my 5-year-old. It's fun, innovative, and makes bedtime less stressful.

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'RM Palmer is devastated': Death count rises to four in Pa. chocolate factory explosion but cause remains a mystery

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Construction vehicles clean up the debris from a Friday evening explosion that killed at least two people.
Cleanup and rescue crews are working through the debris of a Friday explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania.

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Kobo Clara 2E review: The best e-reader that isn't a Kindle

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Gen Zers are bookworms but say they're shunning e-books because of eye strain, digital detoxing, and their love for libraries

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Gen Z is choosing to read paperback books over e-books, data and interviews indicate.

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Words including 'fat,' 'ugly' and 'crazy' have been removed from Roald Dahl's books, but the publisher said the 'sharp-edged spirit' of the original text has been maintained

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A child reads a Roald Dahl book at a primary school.
A child reads a Roald Dahl book at a primary school.

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Sam Bankman-Fried — who once said every book should be a '6-paragraph blog post' — says he's written over 1,000 pages about FTX's collapse while under house arrest

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Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at Manhattan Federal Court on January 3.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX founder, arrives at Manhattan Federal Court on January 3.

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