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Old 06-26-2010, 02:12 PM   #9
BenLee
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
How fast do you need? Modern eInk devices with the latest screen controllers can page turn at 3-4 pages a second.
Ok, 4 sounds a little high. I would say 2 is about right and 3 if you really push it. I've not played with any e-Ink device that does 4 solid in one second.

The other problem may be, and kjk please correct me if I'm wrong, that speed reading is based on the premise that even though we consciously can only pay attention to a narrow range of a few words at a time, our brain is still taking in the entire page while we are reading and by expanding how we take in the page, we can absorb more of the information at once. This requires that the eyes take in the page for a certain amount of time. Maybe 1 second solid per page. With the slow "building" of each page on e-ink, we may not be exposed to the entire page for the same amount of time compared to turning a page which is near instantaneous.

In the end, its probably not dramatically slower. I would imagine someone adept at speed reading would get used to the slight difference.

Edit: I may be confusing speed reading with photoreading, which is slightly different

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