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I tried reading a book on my phone a while back. I read for about 40 minutes and then spent the next hour or so convinced that I was permanently cross-eyed. S
by minouye 16y ago
I tried reading a book on my phone a while back. I read for about 40 minutes and then spent the next hour or so convinced that I was permanently cross-eyed.
Seriously though--maybe my eyes are weaker than most, but I just can handle the screen and have yet to meet someone who can read for an hour or two at a time without significant eyestrain.
- moultano 16y agoWere you doing black text on white, or white text on black? Switching to the latter was what made the difference for me. I've read for many continuous hours on my phone.
- minouye 16y agoI haven't tried that but I'll give it a shot.
- moultano 16y agoI also found that it really helped to have a serif font, and relatively small type, say 15 lines per page in landscape mode.
- lg 16y agoThat's my issue with phone reading. I can't just pick up any arbitrary pdf and read it comfortably, it has to be specially-formatted, or else you have to side-scroll and all that annoying stuff. And the pdf's I want to read are rarely formatted right.
- moultano 16y agoYou'll find that to be a big problem with any ebook reader except perhaps the kindle DX. I feel your pain though. I looked for months for an ideal ebook reader for academic papers, and concluded that such a product didn't yet exist.