Reformating Text May 11, 2007
Posted by Andre Vellino in Visualization.2 comments
I can confirm the report on SlashDot that there are better ways to read text than as paragraph-blobs. “Live Ink” offers a poetic way of spacing and arranging text that works for me.
But also, about 10 years ago I experimented with word-at-a-time presentation (on what were then very small cell-phone displays) of text. So called “Rapid Serial Visual Presentation” can improve the rate of reading by a factor of 3.5. It’s quite interesting to try a demo of “FlashReader” that presents HTML one word at a time. Not great for reading a paper on quantum physics, perhaps, but maybe the NY Times.
