<html><head></head><body>Don't hold back on a well fitting, adjustable chair. Once the sciatica starts, being productive tanks.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 25, 2021 9:07:24 PM EDT, Leam Hall via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">For me it's more choice than issue. I mostly read technical books, and have to flip back and forth between the graphic description and the text. Harder to do with an ereader. With fiction I get through a page fairly quickly, though I'm by no means super fast. Reading on my computer is less desirable; my office is always the warmest room in the house, and I haven't talked myself into a comfortable chair yet. Since I spend most of the day here, being elsewhere is a nice break. I can sit in the living room with a book, and not have to stare at a screen.<br><br>Which is kind of funny, since the few books I've published are ebooks only. :)<br><br>Leam<br><br>On 9/25/21 5:18 PM, Bob Toxen via Ale wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Uh, I swap foreground/background colors to show white text on a black background,<br>for decades. MUCH EASIER on the eyes!<br><br>As I've aged I increase font size.<br><br>Bob<br><br>On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Leam Hall via Ale said on Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:36:18 -0500<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 9/24/21 6:10 PM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"> And who in 2021 would write a document on printed<br> paper?<br><br> SteveT<br></blockquote><br> *raises hand slowly*<br><br> Easier on my old eyes, and I read fast enough that a kindle slows me<br> down.<br></blockquote><br> Yeahhh, for the most part the dead trees argument was sparring between<br> two guys with a very different view of the world, and can safely be<br> ignored. But because one of the things I do for a living is write,<br> produce and publish books, I'm very interested in your preceding<br> sentence.<br><br> It sounds to me like printed documents are actually easier on your<br> eyes, I presume giving you less eye strain, headaches, etc. Is this<br> because of the glaring white background, or some other reason? If the<br> glaring white background, do your devices give you the option of using<br> a light tan background? Does that help?<br><br> Some people (like me) have no choice but to read electronic docs,<br> because we can't comfortably focus on anything less than 15 point. A<br> normal paperback printed in a font I can read would be five or six<br> inches thick, whereas on a device I can crank it up to clock face type<br> size and read comfortably. Does your eyesight restrict the font size you<br> can read?<br><br> Are you one of those people able to read line by line instead of word<br> by word? If so, I can well imagine that five or six words per line<br> would slow you down. On mobile devices, have you tried turning the<br> device landscape so you get longer lines? Of course, doing so means you<br> have to page down much too often, and that would slow you down.<br><br> Do you ever consider reading on your computer monitor? Doing so would<br> solve the words per line and lines per page problems, but would<br> eliminate the portability most people require.<br><br> I can't go back to printing my books; it's economically infeasible now<br> that I have to compete with PDF and ePub books. But I *can* work to<br> bring the benefits of printed books to my PDFs and ePubs.<br><br> Thanks,<br><br> SteveT<br><br> Steve Litt<br> Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful<br> Technologist <a href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques">http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques</a><hr> Ale mailing list<br> Ale@ale.org<br> <a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></blockquote><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br><br></blockquote></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>