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How to Mark Up PDFs in Acrobat Reader Like a Trapeze Artist: A Quick Start Guide
Photo taken at a performance by the Great Royal Circus in Kochi, India, on September 4, 2010. The acrobat is holding on to the bar with...
Mar 10
Street Reader 3: Reading in the Rain
A lottery ticket seller takes a break. He's well equipped for the rainy day. And yes, reading and rainy days are made for each other....
Aug 31, 2022
The Atomic Typo
The typo is the bane of the copyeditor. However careful I am, I'll invariably find a handful during my final read. It could be an extra...
May 7, 2021
Roadside Reader 1
I saw him daily on my morning commute. His house was the wall of a park, and sometimes he was stretched out on the wall, asleep. In the...
Apr 6, 2021
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