Initially, I impressed him with my speed-reading.

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The AR1011HS high-speed sensor architecture is capable of reading full 10MP resolution at 60fps, and enables a variety of video modes, including broadcast quality quad high definition (HD), oversampled 1080p for True HD resolution, 1080p video at 120 frames per second, and additional high frame rate modes for slow motion playback.

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You can enjoy easy-to-read magazine-like editions for high speed and offline reading.

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More impressive is the e-reader's ability to learn your reading speed and give you information on how long it will take you to finish a chapter, or the entire book.

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This feature is smart-it personalizes the time for each customer based on their reading speed and is constantly updated as the reader's speed and habits change.

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This feature is smart - it personalizes the time for each customer based on their reading speed and is constantly updated as the reader's speed and habits change.

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The reading desks, lavishly leather-topped, will be fed books at speed by a computerised retrieval system, and will be equipped for modem and Internet use assets which initially may baffle the older generation of nostalgic pen-pushing scholars.

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And to insert as a political objective a provision like this that would try to speed up the process would only result in its -- in the State Department -- based on my reading of their statement -- in the State Department having to say, given no other course, having to say no.

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