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Originally Posted by booklover6
Wow!
I know different people read in different ways. One word at a time people probably read slower than people who read groups of words at a time. It's interesting to hear about different styles.
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I read groups of words at a time; on the KA1 about half a line. The KPW1 makes that more difficult because the lines are too short. That breaks the flow, compared to the KA1. Thus on the KPW1, I read much less words at a time.
I hold my reader so close (4-6 inch depending on the day), the line length appears to be very long. Moving my eyes across a line would mean that I'd need to go from extreme left to extreme right and back again. It would be extremely tiring for me to read like that.
I've added an attachment with a crude drawing.
Black: The reader
Blue: My head
Dark green: read a line
Light green: back to the beginning
Red: Reader pivot point
Don't think that I'm swiveling my head from left to right, 45 degrees in each direction, and waving the reader in the air like a fan. This is a very slight motion, which entails a movement of 1-2 centimeter to each side. The Kindle, obviously, needs an even smaller movement. This is also the reason why I wouldn't use a 9.7 inch reader: the lines would be too long. The KA1 is just about perfect.