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Apple Books Digital Narration Announced, Will Let Indie Authors, Small Publishers Create Audiobooks
Apple has introduced digital narration technology for Ebooks available in the Apple Books store. The company has launched AI-enabled voice assistants that will read books for users. The feature is currently available for romance and fiction books only. Also, the feature is only available in English at present.
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Watch: UP School Teachers Couldn't Read In English During Test, Suspended
Two teachers of a government school in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao were suspended for not being able to read a few lines in English from a book during an inspection.
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This App Helps You Read Any Nonfiction Book in 12 Minutes
12min is a Brazilian app that creates summaries of nonfiction books in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, with Hindi ‘microbooks’ coming soon.
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She Lost The Letter Her Dying Mom Left Her, Then It Was Found In A Secondhand Bookshop
The owner of a secondhand bookstore in a northern English market town was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelope fell from one. Inside was an undated letter and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter was addressed to "Bethany (My tiny treasure)" and signed "Mam." It said if Bethany was reading it, it mea...
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Cornell University Welcomes 12-Year-Old College Freshman
When he was 2, Jeremy Shuler was reading books in English and Korean. At 6, he was studying calculus. Now, at an age when most kids are attending middle school, the exuberant 12-year-old is a freshman at Cornell University, the youngest the Ivy League school has on record.
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Blog: The growing distance between me and Assamese
For the past 10 years, I have earned a living by speaking before a camera and holding a microphone. So, it's not natural for me to get goosebumps when asked to speak before a live audience. I was invited by the National Book Trust to be part of a panel discussion at a book fair in Nazira, an oil township of Upper Assam. The topic was the role of ma...
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Nursery textbooks which read B for 'Bomb' and C for 'Chakoo' seized in UP
Following news reports, the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has seized copies of a book of English alphabets for nursery students that carried violent words such as bomb and 'chakoo' (knife) and slapped a show cause notice on the school that had prescribed the book. UP Joint Education Director Vikas Srivastava led the raid to St. Marks School in Uday...
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Apple Books Digital Narration Announced, Will Let Indie Authors, Small Publishers Create Audiobooks
Apple has introduced digital narration technology for Ebooks available in the Apple Books store. The company has launched AI-enabled voice assistants that will read books for users. The feature is currently available for romance and fiction books only. Also, the feature is only available in English at present.
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Watch: UP School Teachers Couldn't Read In English During Test, Suspended
Two teachers of a government school in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao were suspended for not being able to read a few lines in English from a book during an inspection.
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This App Helps You Read Any Nonfiction Book in 12 Minutes
12min is a Brazilian app that creates summaries of nonfiction books in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, with Hindi ‘microbooks’ coming soon.
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She Lost The Letter Her Dying Mom Left Her, Then It Was Found In A Secondhand Bookshop
The owner of a secondhand bookstore in a northern English market town was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelope fell from one. Inside was an undated letter and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter was addressed to "Bethany (My tiny treasure)" and signed "Mam." It said if Bethany was reading it, it mea...
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Cornell University Welcomes 12-Year-Old College Freshman
When he was 2, Jeremy Shuler was reading books in English and Korean. At 6, he was studying calculus. Now, at an age when most kids are attending middle school, the exuberant 12-year-old is a freshman at Cornell University, the youngest the Ivy League school has on record.
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Blog: The growing distance between me and Assamese
For the past 10 years, I have earned a living by speaking before a camera and holding a microphone. So, it's not natural for me to get goosebumps when asked to speak before a live audience. I was invited by the National Book Trust to be part of a panel discussion at a book fair in Nazira, an oil township of Upper Assam. The topic was the role of ma...
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Nursery textbooks which read B for 'Bomb' and C for 'Chakoo' seized in UP
Following news reports, the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has seized copies of a book of English alphabets for nursery students that carried violent words such as bomb and 'chakoo' (knife) and slapped a show cause notice on the school that had prescribed the book. UP Joint Education Director Vikas Srivastava led the raid to St. Marks School in Uday...
