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I often read texts (blogs, articles, long comments, etc) out of order, skipping whole paragraphs, coming back if I feel like I missed a detail. Just going fast.
by Perz1val 3y ago
I often read texts (blogs, articles, long comments, etc) out of order, skipping whole paragraphs, coming back if I feel like I missed a detail. Just going fast. This post is entirely incompatible with that. Not only that, the combination of thin, serif, monospace font on a white background is distracting, but also like 1/4th of the text is bolded, further messing up how I think what is important. Like it is trying to "force itself" on me - that automatically causes me to "resist" by skipping even more... and there's the bottom of the page. (quoted words are far too strong, but you should get the idea)
I'm sure the author didn't intend that, it's just that how I read things being deeply incompatible with their style.
I do read some things "the normal way", but that requires either the text being densely packed, or a linear story.
- rileymat2 3y ago> coming back if I feel like I missed a detail How do you know you are not missing a ton of important meaning? I feel like I know people that do this and are clearly missing major points by substituting their on beliefs in.
- Notatheist 3y agoWe do miss out on a ton of important meaning. On the other hand we skip over a ton of unimportant meaning writers bloat their articles with. I need paragraphs and sentence structure as a kind of bounding volume hierarchy though...
- Perz1val 3y agoI don't, but getting even as little as 80% of 2 articles in the time required to read one is a 60% gain.