At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.

The Reading Room is open to any member of the public who wishes to read there.

Reading Atari 8-bit 130kB or 180kB disks was possible as well with special software, but the standard Atari 8-bit 90kB format, which used FM rather than MFM encoding, could not be handled by the 1571 hardware without modifying the drive circuitry as the control line that determines if FM or MFM encoding is used by the disc controller chip was permanently wired to ground ( MFM mode ) rather than being under software control.

Reading disabilities, or dyslexia, is the most common learning disability, although in research literature it is considered to be a receptive language-based learning disability.

At its headquarters in Reading, England, one of the largest supercomputer complexes in Europe is linked by high-speed telecommunication lines to the computer systems of the national weather services of its supporting states.

Reading, such as reading books, magazines, comics, or newspapers, along with browsing the internet is a common hobby and one that can trace its origins back many hundreds of years.

The historic practice of a bishop tutoring a candidate himself (" Reading for Orders ") is still to be found.

* 871 – Battle of Reading: Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.

Its Double-A affiliate is the Reading Phillies, which plays in Reading, Pennsylvania, and its Triple-A affiliate is the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, which plays in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Like the Kurzweil Reading Machine of almost 30 years before, the K-NFB Reader is designed to aid blind people by reading written text aloud.

* May 25 – Oscar Wilde is convicted of " sodomy and gross indecency " and is sentenced to serve 2 years in prison at Reading.

* December 25 – The Reading Football Club is formed.

* Reading Abbey is founded in England.

* Reading, England is occupied by the Norse.

Jeff ' Yak ' Minter ( born in Reading, 22 April 1962 ) is a British video game designer and programmer.

There is a " Mary and David Boies Reading Room " at the CEELI Institute in Prague.

The Florey Unit of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Berkshire is named after him.

The Gospel Reading on Sunday lays out one of the most important themes of the Lenten season: the process of falling into of sin, realization of one's sinfulness, the road to repentance, and finally reconciliation, each of which is illustrated in the course of the parable.

According to Put Reading First from the National Institute for Literacy, embedded phonics is described as indirect instruction where " Children are taught letter-sound relationships during the reading of connected text.

The resulting report Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and its Implications for Reading Instruction was published in 2000 and provides a comprehensive review of what is known about best practices in reading instruction in the U. S. The panel reported that several reading skills are critical to becoming good readers: phonemic awareness, phonics for word identification, fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension.

After his death, a plaque in his memory was erected outside his birthplace in the town centre of Reading.

By 1869, pub life had become irksome and the London congregation obtained their first Reading Room at 7 New Street, which was reckoned to be built on the former site of Lodowicke Muggleton's birthplace, Walnut Tree Yard.

Not much is known of his mother, except the maiden name of Bedborough, birthplace of Reading, England and wedding date of 13 August 1792.

The National Reading Panel identified positive effects only for a subset, particularly summarizing, asking questions, answering questions, comprehension monitoring, graphic organizers, and cooperative learning.

" In 2012, parody artist Bad Lip Reading released a song, " YETI ," about a doomed romance between Chris Martin and the titular cryptid.

Later he became the artist in residence and Professor of Painting at the Department of Fine Art of the University of Reading.

The group Big Brovaz originally comprised three women, Cherise ( half-Jamaican and half-Irish ; won the MOBO best unsigned artist in 2000 ), Dion, Nadia ( born in Reading ) and three men, J-Rock ( real name John Paul Horsley, born in Washington DC ), Flawless ( real name Tayo Aisida, born in Lagos, Nigeria ) and Randy, plus two producers Skillz, also known as JJC ( real name Abdul Bello, born in Kano, Nigeria ), who also manages his group 419 squad, and Fingaz.

• Music Reading with the participation of the artist AzizKhyoun in the Federation of Iraqi Writers.

However, her talent as an artist was recognised at school by a sympathetic headmistress at Manchester High School for Girls and she went on to attend art courses in Manchester and at the University College, Reading, where she was taught by Professor Allen W. Seaby.

A poster by artist Roloff Beny advertising a Reading from 1945 is in possession of the National Archives of Canada.

William Gershom Collingwood, ( 6 August 1854, Liverpool – 1 October 1932 ) was an English author, artist, antiquary and Professor of Fine Arts at Reading University.

* 1950 ( 11 ) Los Angeles Open, Bing Crosby Pro-Am ( tie with Jack Burke, Jr., Smiley Quick, Dave Douglas ), Texas Open, Miami Beach Open, Greater Greensboro Open, Western Open, Colonial National Invitation, Inverness Invitational Four-Ball ( with Jim Ferrier ), Reading Open, North and South Open, Miami Open

* Jim Barnett, unsuccessful 2006 Republican candidate for governor of Kansas, grew up on a farm near Reading and graduated from Reading High School.

Jim Smith would have managed the club and be assisted by Reading boss Maurice Evans.

Spurred on by infamy, Jim Bob and Fruitbat toured Japan, Yugoslavia and the United States ( with EMF ) and made a second-on-the-bill appearance at the Reading Festival, where some people feel they upstaged the headline act, James.

* 1949 ( 6 ) Rio Grande Valley Open, Jacksonville Open, U. S. Open, Motor City Open ( co-winner with Lloyd Mangrum ), Reading Open, Miami International Four-Ball ( with Jim Ferrier )

His guitar work influenced young musicians playing the same venues in the Philadelphia / Reading, Pennsylvania area where the Comets were based, among them the guitarist and future legendary comic-book writer-artist Jim Steranko.

In 2011, the company headquarters were moved to Castle Street in Reading, England, and Jim Rose was appointed as Group CEO.

Steranko was born in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Steranko's father and five uncles showed musical inclination, performing in a band that played on Reading radio in the 1930s, Steranko has said.

* 1946 – Peter Reading, English poet ( d. 2011 )

As the King's forces moved southwards, taking Oxford, Reading and Windsor, the garrison commander at Farnham ( and noted poet ), Captain George Wither, decided to evacuate the castle ; the new High Sheriff of Surrey ( John Denham, a Royalist sympathiser and another noted poet ) then occupied the vacant castle with 100 armed supporters.

* Peter Reading ( born 1956 ), English poet

Reading these pen-pictures, one cannot help but conclude that the poet must have had a personal knowledge of these areas.

* Peter Robinson ( poet ) ( born 1953 ), English poet, scholar, translator, and professor at the University of Reading

Theobald's fame and contribution to English letters, however, rests with his 1726 Shakespeare Restored, or a Specimen of the many Errors as well Committed as Unamended by Mr Pope in his late edition of this poet ; designed not only to correct the said Edition, but to restore the true Reading of Shakespeare in all the Editions ever published.

The proximate cause was Theobald's publication of Shakespeare Restored, or a Specimen of the many Errors as well Committed as Unamended by Mr Pope in his late edition of this poet ; designed not only to correct the said Edition, but to restore the true Reading of Shakespeare in all the Editions ever published in 1726.

• Music Reading for five poems from the of " Why did you leave the horse alone " by the great poet presented at a joint concert for them in Tunisia, Berlin ( Germany ), and Boston ( USA ) in 1995.

The poet Peter Reading ( 1946-2011 ) lived in the village.

At the Jack Kerouac Conference in Boulder, 1983, Ginsberg booed and raised thumbs down to a large audience when poet Hedwig Gorski introduced her verse-drama Booby, Mama at the Midnight Reading of Younger Poets.

The Suffrajets played Download Festival and Tiscali Sessions at Reading Festival in Summer 2005 appearing alongside acts such as The Futureheads, Graham Coxon and We Are Scientists and performing a collaboration with poet & friend of Peter Doherty, The Wolfman.