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  2. Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Software that converts text to voice is readily available and can be easily used to read out Wikipedia pages on-the-fly. See screen reader . The web-based Pediaphon service uses speech synthesis to generate MP3 audio files and podcasts of Wikipedia articles in different languages.

  3. Pack Horse Library Project - Wikipedia

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    Books were rotated between locations [6] and were chosen based on the preferences of the library patrons. [6] The collection of the libraries were focused on children's books. [3]: 69 Maggie Mae Smith, a supervisor at the Whitley County Pack Horse Library wrote that the children all ran to meet the book women, saying, "Bring me a book to read."

  4. Wikipedia:Spoken articles - Wikipedia

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    This page lists recordings of Wikipedia articles being read aloud, and the year each recording was made. Articles under each subject heading are listed alphabetically (by surname for people). For help playing Ogg audio, see Help:Media. To request an article to be spoken, see Category:Spoken Wikipedia requests.

  5. Marguerite Henry - Wikipedia

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    So I went to the library, studied the horse books, and immediately fell in love with the work of Will James and Wesley Dennis. When I found out that Will James was dead, I sent my manuscript to Wesley Dennis." [10] Henry and Dennis eventually collaborated on nearly 20 books. Misty of Chincoteague was published in 1947 and was an instant success.

  6. Billy and Blaze - Wikipedia

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    Published by MacMillian Books, it is the first of a series of eleven books and is Anderson's most well known work. The book is about a little boy, Billy, and his pony, Blaze, who he receives as a birthday gift in this book. The adventures of Billy and Blaze revolved around proper care of the horse, while teaching a lesson.

  7. Horse_ebooks - Wikipedia

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    Horse_ebooks was a part of a network of similar Twitter spam accounts which promoted e-books organized around a single theme. Based on investigations by Splitsider and Gawker, its creator was believed to be a Russian web developer and spammer named Alexei Kouznetsov [1] [5] (Russian: Алексей Кузнецов, also romanized Alexey Kuznetsov [6]).

  8. Silent reading - Wikipedia

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    Silent reading is reading done silently, or without speaking the words being read. [ 1 ] Before the reintroduction of separated text (spaces between words) in the Late Middle Ages , the ability to read silently may have been considered rather remarkable, though some scholars object to this idea.

  9. Beautiful Jim Key - Wikipedia

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    Jim Key at the 1904 World's Fair. Beautiful Jim Key was a famous performing horse around the turn of the twentieth century. [1] His promoters claimed that the horse could read and write, handle money, perform arithmetic for numbers below thirty, [2] and recite Bible passages "where the horse is mentioned."