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Old 12-11-2009, 04:21 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by LDBoblo View Post
This is not true. Many readers wish for much faster response times and navigation ability. If all you do is slowly, linearly follow each word in a book the way you did in elementary school, then yes slow is satisfactory. People with advanced reading skills aren't always so simplistic in their textual navigation.
I'm the first to admit I'm a slow reader, and my book selections are monosyllabic enough that I've never had a problem with auto-hyphenation or fully justified text leaving large spaces on a line, so excuse me when I completely fail to grasp any "advanced" non-linear reading technique that requires you to read single lines of pages at random points in a book? Is this puzzle reading? Do you keep doing this until you've read the whole book and then you're forced to try put it all together at the end? You must be wicked smart!

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Originally Posted by LDBoblo View Post
I am always disappointed when I hear the "reading" defense of e-ink. Yes, it works for low-level reading. It's pretty poor for dynamic reading.
"Dynamic reading?" Oh! Now I know what you're talking about. But don't worry, bro, I ported one of R.A. Montgomery's Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novels to mobipocket and it worked out fine for me on my Kindle. I found the treasure chest and everything.
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