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Fifty years ago, most reading involved paper. And with today's digital technology, reading is now more important than ever. These days, we take in more and more information, so improving your reading can help in more and more areas of your life. With so many things to read, we're often faced with lots of information, so it's useful to be able to spot the most important points to focus on.

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It is also useful to work out if something is worth reading in full, or can just be scanned to identify the information that is actually useful. Things that we can read can also be very different quality. Some text can be full of factual information, and others are personal opinion or fiction. Sometimes what you're reading is just not very good.

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