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Old 08-27-2023, 04:18 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
Reading experience is subjective.
To an extent. But scrolling is bad, which is why no physical ebook reader I know does it. Not even the older LCD models.

I've not even looked for studies as it's reviled except by people that have only ever read web "pages". There might not even be a study. It's amazing what is foisted on users with no study. There was originally no study about the Open Dyslectic font. It was an art project. Later studies show that simply being able to change font size and line spacing works better. Dyslectic readers I tested thought the Open Dyslectic font was the worst option and had not previously seen eink ereaders or ebooks. They thought them superior to printed books or web pages. However that wasn't a scientific study.

Though the Calibre viewer can paginate or scroll, some ereader apps don't scroll and most have pagination as the default.

An autocue is one of the valid applications of scrolling, though experienced narrators prefer pagination and will press the page turn button as they read the end of the page. You can't do decent narration with an autocue on your own, nor use on screen swipe when narrating.

Some people have literally been trained to accept scrolling due to historic bad PC application / browser design.

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