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Facelift in Progress

After a long sabbatical, we here at The Reader’s Place have a facelift underway.  If you are interested in participating at TRP in a moderator role, please contact me.

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TRP’s Winter Classics Reading Challenge

TRP is hosting this fun and rewarding challenge to help kick off our new face lift. ***The challenge is to read three classics during the months of November, December and January*** At the end of January there will be a drawing for all those who complete the challenge. We’re still deciding on a prize. If you would [...]

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• We love words...if we didn't, we wouldn't spend such a large part of our lives reading. That's why I wanted to share with you a fun and creative Java applet. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. #