Hey Subtle,

Andy Catsimanes · **Hey Subtle, -** 05-14-2007, 12:14 PM

Check this out..

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Live Ink offers better way to read text online
By Mark Coker, VentureBeat 05.10.07

Did you know our primitive brains weren’t wired very well to read this paragraph?

Scientific research conducted by Walker Reading Technologies, a small Minnesota startup that has been studying our ability to read for the last ten years, has concluded that the natural field of focus for our eyes is circular, so our eyes view the printed page as if we’re peering through a straw.

And a very bad-behaving straw at that, because not only do our eyes feed our brain the words we’re reading, they’re also uploading characters and words from the two sentences above and below the line we’re reading.

Every time we read block text, we’re forcing our brain to a wage a constant subconscious battle with itself to filter and discard the superfluous inputs.

This mental tug of war slows reading speed and diminishes comprehension.

When our ancestors first invented written language about 5,000 years ago, they unfortunately didn’t have armies of neuroscientists standing by to tell them block type was the wrong way to format their papyrus rolls. But fret not. Help is on the way...

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Jason Moffatt · **Re: Hey Subtle, -** 05-14-2007, 01:49 PM

That's why I like books with tons of pictures.

Screw the text!

Andy Catsimanes · **Re: Hey Subtle, -** 05-14-2007, 01:55 PM

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Every time we read block text, we’re forcing our brain to a wage a constant subconscious battle with itself to filter and discard the superfluous inputs.

This mental tug of war slows reading speed and diminishes comprehension.

I'm confused on account of I'm conflicted.