Reformating Text May 11, 2007
Posted by Andre Vellino in Visualization.trackback
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.
Thanks for this link and comment. It induced me to write an essay on the topic. You can find it in http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~vanemden/zzVentProse.html
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