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I think it would be interesting if you were to expand a bit on this, it's not obvious to me why either justification or hyphenation makes it harder for you. Ma

• Groxx 16y ago
  My reasoning is as follows: Ragged-edges make lines easier to distinguish. You don't lose your vertical location as easily, and it aids in remembering the physical location of words because every paragraph looks different. I seem to have very good location memory with what I read, though, so I may be abnormal in that part. Varying space width means variation in reading words. Less variation is less cognitive cost. Hyphenation means breaking a word in half, so you have to hold an incomplete word in your memory until you resume the next line. Useful to prevent huge gaps in paragraphs, but more = higher cognitive cost. In summary: they're bad for my speed-reading. Very bad.