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  • noun Plural form of nonreader.

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Examples

  • Trying to halt all of this is as futile as the effort to make fiction palatable to nonreaders, which is finally what motivates the existing public sphere in publishing and book reviewing in the first place.

    The State of Criticism 2008

  • Trying to halt all of this is as futile as the effort to make fiction palatable to nonreaders, which is finally what motivates the existing public sphere in publishing and book reviewing in the first place.

    The Reading Experience 2008

  • But the concern here isn't so much with readers but with nonreaders.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Roger Sutton 2009

  • But the concern here isn't so much with readers but with nonreaders.

    Can we grow the number of readers? Roger Sutton 2009

  • What bizarre conception of literature would have it intended primarily for nonreaders?

    Art and Culture 2010

  • Like everybody else, I’d just be staring at a laptop all day or poking at my phone, sending misspelled, ungrammatical instant messages to fellow nonreaders.

    Edward Bloor - An interview with author 2010

  • The initial assumption on the part of many literati, that tablets would cater to nonreaders skimming best-seller ephemera, is clearly wrong.

    Synthesis and Ambivalence Sam Sacks 2011

  • People fail to learn to read for a very wide variety of reasons, and categorizing all nonreaders under the dyslexia umbrella belies the complexity of reading disorders (ibid.).

    Barriers to Reading Comprehension « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • But I encourage literate Christians to remember that God has been drawing nonreaders to Himself for thousands of years.

    The Gospel’s Advance Can’t Wait for Literacy 2008

  • It can leave nonreaders thinking there is no place for them as a follower of Jesus.

    The Gospel’s Advance Can’t Wait for Literacy 2008

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