There’s a particular sort of social anxiety that book clubs engender, and you know exactly what I mean: it begins with coffee and pleasantries until someone says we should discuss previous chapter, and then that awful pause follows as people look around wondering who read it. Half have yet to reach page forty; they’re the […]

When we read on wide screens, our eyes gets strained. Why? We try to follow a line of text but then we can’t find where it went. We have to move our heads slightly to go back to the beginning. It’s a loss in flow that costs us understanding. Before we know it, we’ve broken […]

Now you’ll see that when you print out a chapter, it won’t look quite like how it did on-screen: Digital screens forgive; paper doesn’t. The words you’ve carefully crafted and smoothed over feel squeezed together (or far apart). They don’t read the same way. Your eye doesn’t track text linearally. Instead, it makes little jumps […]

A certain kind of eye strain arise when you read a piece of text that’s ever-so-slightly too wide to be comfortable. You’ve finished the line. Your eyes jump left to begin next line, and now you’re lost for a fraction of a second. It happens quick enough that you don’t even really register it but […]