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Originally Posted by foosion
Not to get too far off topic, but the SEC commissioned experts on the issue rather than relying on their own judgment. It was part of their Plain English initiative to make disclosure documents easier for people to read.
No doubt other experts and other surveys reached other conclusions. Different people have different preferences.
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Kind of curious as to why the SEC commissioned "experts" to study something that's not really in their wheelhouse. I can't find the study, so I don't know exactly what the parameters were but, just guessing, it would seem that they would be more interested in text on computer screens than eBooks.
Do you have a link?
As for my view, ragged text on the right side of an eBook's screen doesn't work better for me, especially if the text is relatively large and the lengths of sentences vary widely. I can read ragged right text, but I prefer not to — at least not in eBooks. Ragged right is fairly common in web pages, but the lines are often much longer, so it's not really a one to one comparison.
EDIT: I re-read your last post and see now why the SEC would be involved. I'll see if I can find the study with the hints you give in your post (Plain English Initiative).
EDIT 2: I think I may have found the reference you're speaking about. But I'm guessing this is for an 8.5" x 11" page, with one column and 12 point text. In that format you will see gaps in the sentences if "justified," especially if it's a legal document using mono-spaced characters. A well formatted eBook, on the other hand, that's truly justified with a good font and reasonable hyphenation will have very few noticeable gaps.
But if I'm missing something here, let me know.