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Aural Speed-Reading: Some Historical Bookmarks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Mara Mills  and
Jonathan Sterne
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PMLA , Volume 135 , Issue 2 , March 2020 , pp. 401 - 411
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Copyright © 2020 Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne

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