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Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw
Nits aside, I have to agree that when I write things, I seem to do a better job of editing and catching faux pas when I am looking at paper rather than a computer screen. I've never thought about how reading on my Kindle might be a different experience. I certainly feel like I get as much out of the book as I do on paper, but who knows....?
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Originally Posted by danbloom
Why do you think that is? I experience the same thing, too. But I cannot explain it. Any ideas?
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I don't know if it's the whole reason, but a large part is simply that your brain gets so familiar with the document as you work on it on the computer that you stop reading/seeing details. Format shifting, like printing it out, makes it appear fresh and new. It would probably help your on-screen proofreading if you changed the look of the document; for example two columns instead on one, dark background and light text, a radically different font, etc.
Apart from this, I would guess that we have become used to reading differently on the screen. When I read web pages for example, I skim more than when reading a book, and that habit might carry over.