Even not-so-ordinary readers - writers and editors - lose track.

In any case, the reader by this time has long since lost interest in Martin and his mysterious blindness.

It's organized alphabetically, but not every page has a letter, so a reader can lose track.

For somewhere in the midst of all the academic fastidiousness the reader can lose Burnett's important signal.

The gamble, of course, is that readers may have lost interest in the subject by the time a book appears.

A little too soon, the reader loses interest in them.

The bodies pile up so fast the reader loses count.

She warns that if readers lose their place or miss lines, they will miss the meaning of the entire work.

And I believed the reader lost nothing at all by not knowing.

His characters feel such a sense of entitlement that the reader sometimes loses sight of the truth.