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Originally Posted by drjd
Ah.. I got it. 
Hmm.. you have invoked a brand new process of thoughts. I agree with you, with the growing age, one can not rule out the possibility of slowing down in every action, including reading, and certainly if we consider the gradually decaying eyesight, a couple of minutes extra spent on every chapter will considerably affect the overall speed. Thanks for your views. |
Typography can make a massive difference, whether comparing two pbooks, two ebooks or one of each. Overly long lines of text, or overly short ones, severely reduce readability. I've seen many very poorly done pbooks over the years, probably the worst was a trade paperback edition of
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest. Brown text on off-white paper yielded a low contrast page that was hard to read, a case of form over function killing the product. Similarly, there is a local newspaper format literary journal of sorts that chronically uses exceptionally long lines that are impossible to scan easily; when your eye returns to the beginning of the next line it takes some effort and time to find the right line.
Despite my mild dyslexia, in the over 1/2 century that I've been reading novel length pbooks and over 1/4 century that I've been reading ebooks I haven't noticed any speed or difficulty differences that I can attribute to anything other than typography. I properly made ebook on a properly setup device can be as easy for me to read as a well typeset pbook. Both the typography on either and reading efficiency plummets.