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Nathan raises an excellent point. WIth scrolling text, you need to put in extra effort to track where you've stopped and where to start reading again. This may not seem like a lot of mental effort,...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T01:46:18Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Gabriel Goh
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2019-12-08T01:46:18Z (almost 5 years ago)
Nathan raises an excellent point. WIth scrolling text, you need to put in extra effort to track where you've stopped and where to start reading again. This may not seem like a lot of mental effort, but it's small things like that which tire the reader's "eyes" - a metaphor of course, it's really the brain which is tired from doing all that needless searching. There is also the fact that most ebook readers don't have refresh rates fast enough for smooth animations.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2011-07-12T06:28:38Z (over 13 years ago)
Original score: 4