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Instapaper gives you a Read Later bookmark.When you find something you want to read, but you don't have time, click Read Later. Come back when you have time, or read your articles on the go.

Great article on relationship of reading and spelling

Two New Free Games! Just in time for the Holiday Season - two brand new games! Test-N-Teach (TNT) is our new spelling game and Read-A-Word is our first-ever reading game. Both games are available to everyone!

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Pocket Tales turns reading into a game you play with your friends.

"The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind are suing Arizona State University for its use of the Amazon Kindle to distribute electronic textbooks to students, saying the device cannot be used by blind students. The groups say the Kindle has text-to-speech technology that reads books aloud to blind students, but that the device's menus do not offer a way for blind students to purchase books, select a book to read, or even to activate the text-to-speech feature, according to a joint statement by the two groups."

Read a book online or write and publish your own with their clip art, animations and font choices

Links to Reading Street Spelling and Vocabulary, MacMillan/McGraw Hill Spelling, Abeka Spelling, Harcourt Spelling, Essential Vocabulary, Journeys and Treasures, and Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary are also listed here.

Instapaper can be downloaded on your desktop as well as your mobile devices. Save a site to read later! 

Flash-card programs, eBook reading software, and science and math simulations are among more than a dozen educational software programs developed for Apple's iPhone that appear in the new App Store, which debuted July 11. Educators and students can use these applications to locate stars and constellations, visualize a hydrogen atom, learn a new language, and read books on their iPhone, among other uses.

#Web 1.0 - That Geocities & Hotmail era was all about read-only content and static HTML websites. People preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo! and dmoz. #Web 2.0 - This is about user-generated content and the read-write web. People are consuming as well as contributing information through blogs or sites like Flickr, YouTube, Digg, etc. The line dividing a consumer and content publisher is increasingly getting blurred in the Web 2.0 era. #Web 3.0 - This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things.

If you are a teacher or/ and a social media curator you will like to be a presenter and love this apps . If you enjoy reading leave your comments . 

Read Google Books and Magazines on your desktop and/or save to pdf, currently only works w/Windows XP/Vista/7. And you need to have .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 installed on your computer. Send request for other OS through support form. Free download.

a completely new way of choosing what to read

reads any text, you can upload MS Word, PDF, HTML, website address, choose from 15 readers, english, spanish, french

I've tried this out several which ways and personally found it to be a weak product. It just doesn't even sound close to natural, but I think they'll eventually get there.