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Originally Posted by rkomar
I don't know if this has ever been discussed here at MR before, but personally, I have a problem with information retention when reading from CRT and LCD displays. I find that I just don't remember as much afterwards compared to reading from paper (and now E-Ink). It's not really noticeable with light reading, but I do a fair bit of heavy, technical reading, and I can tell the difference there. I should say that I don't notice much eye strain when reading from CRT and LCD displays for long periods.
Has anyone here noticed anything similar?
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For comprehension there are many things to consider: font size, paragraph size, line spacing, line length, etc. If you were reading a document meant for printing, chances are that it was not optimized for on-screen comprehension. There are fonts that were specifically designed for this purpose. The more your reader imitates paper, the easier it will be to read on it (and remember) something that was designed for paper.
Computer screens are landscape.
Books are portrait.
Scientific articles and text books are portrait and have columns.
With a hand held device and the right software you should be able to optimize a text for comprehension if you take under consideration the type of screen.
I'm assuming that the LCD that you mentioned didn't belong to a hand held device.