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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
No, for a couple of reasons. The most important is the eye muscle strain from tracking horizontally on a screen much too far from my eyes. I do much better with narrow columns of text, on a device held below my eyes, to make the best use of my progressive lenses. And I love backlit e-ink.
In the days before tablets, I read the local newspaper online, and news sites. Now with our iPads, I rarely read anything but the banking site and Quicken on the PC. But no pleasure reading.
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that's why I usually resize the application on which I'm reading to a narrower size (like 4:3 portrait-like). And when an internet page (like MR itself) resizes the content window, I'll resize the browser so that the browser is just wider than than that content on the page and I can position the browser wherever it's most comfortable. My biggest problem is really position. I just dislike sitting upright while reading
