Like the Kobo, the Story HD can also zoom in and pan PDFs -- the process is a little tedious, but it's a handy feature nonetheless.

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It's a tedious job--reading information off scanned-in images of forms then punching it into a database running on a mainframe computer.

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It's a tedious process, but fairly reliable.

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When he's giving someone feedback on a document -- whether it's on a PowerPoint Deck or in Microsoft Word -- it's much more tedious to mark it up on a keyboard, Gutsche said.

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They become clearer after Mr Weeks, while observing a group at one of the bank's Securities Centres, is given a particularly tedious task to do.

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These data can then be used to improve a firm's service, for example by relieving people of the tedious business of having to fill in a home-loan application.

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Forgive me if this seems a tad tedious - if, for instance, you think there's more to life than football - but it's a story that gets ever more eye-popping and surreal.

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And Mr Stoll's bias, though overt, can get a little tedious.

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The work -- the inspection work that they're doing is slow and tedious and very sophisticated work, and it really requires a lot of patience on everyone's behalf, really, because really what they have to do is piece together a number of clues.

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