In The Independent: why we’re all reading slower than 10 years ago
In this week’s Independent column (get ‘em while they last), I’ve written about how screens are still less good for reading than paper - although some improvements in “digital ink” might make a difference. (There’s a good Wired article about a company doing this.)
To quote the beginning of my piece:
People are reading less. I’m not talking just about the fact that fewer newspapers are sold in the US and UK, and that they now tend to have fewer words than 10 or 15 years ago. No, I’m referring to the way that we’re reading more of what we do read on screens - and computer screens are a terrible way to read compared with paper.
Bonus link: the University of Teeside’s readability project is at http://readability.tees.ac.uk/.
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Wearable computing, of botnets and 'botherds', and follow that star! (15 December 2004; score: 29.53%)
- In The Independent: who's going to buy Microsoft's new Vista? (27 July 2005; score: 28.32%)
- On Ballmer and Media Centres, BT's Broadband Voice and how sight kicked off evolution's Big Bang (12 October 2004; score: 27.92%)
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