Action and Reading

Action

Action noun - Something done by someone.

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Reading and action are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reading" instead a noun "Action".

Nearby Words: active, activity, acting, acted, actively

Reading noun - A presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view.

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Action and reading are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Action" instead a noun "Reading".

Nearby Words: read, reader, readable, readout, readability

live	live action	live reading
similar	similar action	similar reading
short	short action	short reading
standard	standard action	standard reading
Other adjectives: free, simple, heavy, actual, little, bad, main, fun, exciting, dramatic, political, possible, further, last, different, comic.

The Pagemaster tried to do this, but as many people pointed out, it doesn't really encourage reading, instead name-dropping a few literary classics and using loose approximations of their plots and characters for action scenes.

Source: Reading Is Cool Aesop
However, I stopped reading the series after the action got back to England in the sequel, but that's just me.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Harry Potter General
The Soviet animated film The Snow Queen had a live-action prologue added featuring Art Linkletter "reading" the original story to some children.

Source: Importation Expansion

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