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Originally Posted by JeanPierre
Nobody reads justified text more quickly, ceteris paribus. In the best case the individual difference will be very small. Hence the testing arrangement I described.
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This is as pointless as serif vs sans argument. There are only opinions on both these issues. There are too many variables. There are no repeatable well designed studies on justified/ragged or sans/serif with clear results.
There is the annoyance factor too. Last night at Chapter 2 at 11.15 pm approx. I got up and reformatted the CSS on the ebook to remove extra space between paragraphs (it did have 1st line indent), no indent on first paragraph after chapter heading and Justified instead of flushed left(ragged right).
I don't need to read faster. I had to learn to read slower when proofing. I think people have a natural reading speed once they are competent readers, but like justified/ragged or sans/serif claims, that's just an opinion.
Some people like ragged right, or Sans. It doesn't make it best for everyone. What's great about DRM free ebooks using a known editable format is that you can adjust for your own preferences. I've a couple of books by authors I like (on paper) that I really can't read because the print quality is poor. I bought an ebook version of another paper book because the formatting of the paper version made it almost unreadable. Nearly half of it was typewriter style monospace to suggest a MSS, but at supposed time of fictional MSS the proportional Times with fully justified paragraphs had been the norm for years. Oddly and unusually for a main publisher the eBook didn't need edited, its formatting was more conventional.