Andyʼs working notes

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Reading texts on computers is unpleasant

  • Continuous-scroll digital reading uncomfortably disrupts object permanence
  • Poor performance disrupts nonlinear reading in digital reading
  • Maintaining multiple reading positions is difficult when reading digitally
  • Parallel reading is mostly impossible in digital reading
  • Backlit displays limit computers to interiors

This is an important problem because Mass adoption of written media with novel cognitive supports requires mass adoption of reading on computers.