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Old 10-31-2019, 05:19 AM   #123
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Originally Posted by barryem View Post
I read an article in some magazine, I don't recall which, maybe 30 years ago that said the reason newspaper columns were narrow was that research done long ago showed it let people read faster and more easily. I mentioned this in another thread in this forum a few years ago and someone said that had been disproven but i don't recall who said it or why or how it was proven wrong.

I thought in this thread it might be worth mentioning again. I know I read a bit faster with narrow text and even on my Kindle I've experimented with wide margins and they help me read faster.

I won't argue that this works for everyone. Reading is a very individual thing.

Barry
That was an interesting thread and it worked for me also.
Wondering why paper bibles get it and most software don't implement a two columns content rearrange
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