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Old 06-08-2020, 12:32 PM   #121
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Because it does.
I've been assuming that you can read and write English. My mistake.
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Old 06-08-2020, 01:55 PM   #122
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You can do both.
Of course.
But with left-justified I read the paragraph at once.
When justified, I read word for word - the different lengths of spaces bother me.
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Old 06-08-2020, 02:05 PM   #123
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Of course.
But with left-justified I read the paragraph at once.
When justified, I read word for word - the different lengths of spaces bother me.
How do you read a paragraph in one go? How do you do this with really long paragraphs?
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Old 06-08-2020, 02:37 PM   #124
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How do you read a paragraph in one go? How do you do this with really long paragraphs?
Very simple:
two columns, reverse landscape.
First the left block, then the right one.
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Old 06-08-2020, 05:07 PM   #125
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Very simple:
two columns, reverse landscape.
First the left block, then the right one.
That's two gos.
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Old 06-08-2020, 11:48 PM   #126
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Very simple:
two columns, reverse landscape.
First the left block, then the right one.
What? How do you read a paragraph at once instead of reading word by word?
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Old 06-09-2020, 12:17 AM   #127
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What? How do you read a paragraph at once instead of reading word by word?
When you start reading, you learn the pictures of letters and start recognizing words by looking letter by letter.
You know the pictures of words later.
And the more you are in training, the pictures of combinations of words. And the more you practice, the bigger the pictures you can capture.
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Old 06-09-2020, 12:26 AM   #128
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What? How do you read a paragraph at once instead of reading word by word?
You mean everybody doesn't read at least a line at a time? Quelle horreur!
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Old 06-09-2020, 09:37 AM   #129
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You mean everybody doesn't read at least a line at a time? Quelle horreur!
I thought in order to join Mobileread you had to be able to read at least a chapter at a time
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Old 06-09-2020, 09:43 AM   #130
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I thought in order to join Mobileread you had to be able to read at least a chapter at a time
You read the first page and the last page and just know all the rest of the pages based on the first and last pages. Tha's how you read eBook these days.
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Old 06-09-2020, 01:59 PM   #131
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You read the first page and the last page and just know all the rest of the pages based on the first and last pages. Tha's how you read eBook these days.
I read this way when I was a child; the first page, then the last and if it ended badly I didn't read the book.
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Old 06-09-2020, 02:06 PM   #132
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I read this way when I was a child; the first page, then the last and if it ended badly I didn't read the book.
Given ottischwenk's reading method, you never have to read other then the first and last page as you can figure out the rest of the book from reading just those two pages.
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When you start reading, you learn the pictures of letters and start recognizing words by looking letter by letter.
You know the pictures of words later.
And the more you are in training, the pictures of combinations of words. And the more you practice, the bigger the pictures you can capture.
After a certain size, it's an irregular gray blob...

P.S. I have myopia, astigmatism which is hard to adjust for, and visual processing issues, which may affect this.

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Old 06-09-2020, 06:10 PM   #134
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Except if you wear your reading glasses (if needed) and have a 7" @300 dpi screen with font size similar to a mass market paperback then the full justification isn't bad.
It sounds like the bar for badness is quite high for you. I can easily switch between fully justified and ragged right with the Forma and with it fully justified the spacing was very obviously off.

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Justified looks nicer to me.

I agree that fully justified does look nicer. But it's purely an aesthetic quality. I'm amused that people are more sensitive to an aesthetic quality rather than a functional one where the spacing between words is inconsistent, irregular, and bumpy.
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I agree that fully justified does look nicer. But it's purely an aesthetic quality. I'm amused that people are more sensitive to an aesthetic quality rather than a functional one where the spacing between words is inconsistent, irregular, and bumpy.
With proper hyphenation, the spacing is not going to be as bad when fully justified.
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