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> I love books because they create time and space to be alone with a thought. Spot on and cue page turns! Fan open a book and read horizontally. Have intermedi
by marvindanig 8y ago
> I love books because they create time and space to be alone with a thought.
Spot on and cue page turns! Fan open a book and read horizontally. Have intermediate stops between chunks of text on two well-formatted pages and then transition to next. A second to soak in the content in between with time and space makes for a huge difference!
Scrolling animation can never achieve or serve this sort of efficiency!
I recently wrote an essay on some of the underlying psychophysics and varying outcomes of user interfaces (UX/UI) and how pagination with page turns (codex) helps in reading and forming memories[1].
[1] https://bubblin.io/concerns https://bubblin.io/concerns
- lemoncucumber 8y agoI think you're confused about the meanings of the terms horizontal and vertical reading. The linked piece does not use the term "vertical reading" to mean reading on a vertically scrolling screen vs. reading printed pages in a book. Rather, the author uses "vertical reading" to mean deep reading as compared to shallow/broad reading: > Birkerts coins his own terms: the deep, devotional practice of “vertical” reading has been supplanted by “horizontal” reading, skimming along the surface.
- marvindanig 8y agoYes, it means the same thing: skimming vs. soaking in with "duration state" in between. Unless one set of labels appear more valuable to you than the other…