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In my honest opinion, when you first handed us The Longman Reader I thought to myself how boring this book looks. They always say you can’t judge a book by it's cover, but I sure did. I’m not a big fan of reading books since I don’t have much free time. The font in this book is very petite compared to other book. As I was reading this first chapter I was asking myself why someone put such simple steps in a checklist in the book. To add some positively to The Longman Reader I can say some important facts that they gave in the chapter are easy steps, but some people might not have known those. Other than that it shows us how we can look at books multiple ways. Not just one way. I like how this book has labeled sections in each of the chapters,

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