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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
For me part of it was just getting the knack, or maybe just getting used to it. I was around when word processing started getting up a head of steam and one, in business, wrote ones own reports, etc. through to publication. I found that for quite a long time I could not proof read very comfortably on the screen what I had written, I would print it out. I was not alone in that as many others seem to do the same.
But as time went on I found that changed and proof reading on the screen became easy and preferred for me; I noticed that others were not printing their work out either. Of course, better displays came along too as did better fonts, etc.
Perhaps that is one reason why I do not find reading on a tablet (and earlier on PDAs) an issue. Through business need way back I just had to get into reading off LCD screens and for me that proved to be a blessing.
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Perhaps dating myself, but I seem to remember when word processing was getting started. It took a while to move to using CRT monitors as display devices never mind LCD screens. Nothing like outputting to an IBM Selectric, stopping to switch type balls as needed for bold, italic, font changes, etc. Then came Electric Pencil (as used by Jerry Pournelle) which I ran on my CP/M box back in the 70's. It only took a decade after that for monitors and video display cards to improve to the point that anything close to WYSIWYG could be done. By the time LCD monitors came along in the 90's, word processing for personal computers was long established.