Sentences with phrase «reading on screen»

Our brains read words in print more carefully than when reading on a screen.

But when you thrown in the assumptions of reading on screen and a 15 second scan, you only have the top 1/2 of your first page to gain your reader's attention.

Make sure you go one step further when proofreading your cover letter — instead of just reading it on the screen, take a minute to look over a printed copy, too.

Samsung and LG build the best and most - used displays on mobile devices — it's very likely you're reading this on a screen from one of those companies.

The 5.5 - inch full HD screen is good enough for watching videos on your device, although reading on the screen in bright sunlight is a tough ask.

Most people fix on the difficulty of reading on a screen or on the confusing complexity of the web page, when explaining their preference for paper.

Dr Mangen, in a published academic paper published in Britain last December, listed a few reasons that reading on paper and reading on a screen are two very different animals.

* The process of reading on a screen involves so much physical manipulation of the computer that it interferes with our ability to focus on and appreciate what we're reading.

When you ratchet up the pixel density, reading on a screen becomes tolerable, at worst.

The combination of information overload and the difficulty of reading on screen ensures that your viewers will not stay on your site long.

It turns out that we often «map» where we see things on the printed page, and we lose that ability when reading on a screen.

A colleague once asserted that there was a bunch of literature showing that reading on screen was slower than reading from paper, and he was right.

That makes perfect sense, but reading on a screen is slower — about 25 % slower — than reading in paper.

It's cool to see what modern technology enables you to do visually, though at the same time I'm glad they didn't go for a more extensive remake where they would rewrite all of my brilliant dialog to adapt to the change from reading it on screen to hearing it spoken by actors.

When you swap to the white on black color scheme it isn't even terribly uncomfortable to read for hours at a time, though the fact that you are reading on a screen is never forgotten.

Usability experts have long decried reading on a screen; due to low contrast, strong backlighting, screen flicker and low resolution, most people would prefer to avoid long reading sessions on computers.

«We designed Motion Books from the ground - up for reading on screen.

Most of us have become so used to reading on screen by now that we've probably become brainwashed a little.

Reading on this screen is as comfortable as on ordinary paper.

Which brings us back to the central question I opened this review with: Are all the perks of the new Oasis — its ability to make reading on a screen feel fully satisfying — enough to make the device worth $ 250, when $ 120 buys you a device that gets the job done?

Yes, reading on a screen (one smaller than a comic page) is strange at first but something I quickly grew accustomed to.

One thing I appreciate about Kobo ereaders is the fact that they show the cover of the book that you're currently reading on the screen when the device is in sleep mode or turned off.

Secondly, when consumers do start reading on screen, how do we make their first experience great so they continue e-reading and recommend it to others, accelerating the growth of the e-reading market.

The main goal in improving their most popular Kindle is to make reading on the screen as close as possible to reading a printed page.

The editor's pick was based on the device having the fastest touch response time of the four devices and their opinion that the reading on the screen felt the most natural of the test machines.

And many people in publishing believed that reading on a screen would take many years to take hold, if it ever would.

I've heard that, when reading on a screen, a darker blue background with lightly shaded text is easier on the eyes than good ol' black on white, so I adjusted.

If I could only have ONE device it would be my phone (of course) and then I would have to suffer with reading on that screen.

Designed for reading on a screen, Madefire has built an end - to - end publishing platform called Motion Books that immerse the reader in an interactive experience with sound, motion, and depth.

I've never ever liked them and I always lose my concentration while reading on a screen even with the iPad, I do the same and that's why I sold my iPad.

With the growing popularity of ebook readers like the Kindle and iPad, more and more people are reading on a screen rather than from printed books.

The fiction e-publishing industry is still in its relative infancy as regards persuading a whole new potential market to switch from paper, or at least to get over the hurdle of reading on a screen, so a low price point makes sense.

«I'm a cover designer by profession, and I'm actually a big collector of printed books, but nowadays I do most of my reading on a screen, usually on my phone, on the way to work, whenever I can.

How Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces Influence Reading on Screen: an Eye Tracking Study.

The static e-book has become embedded in the public's imagination as an exemplar of the future of reading on the screen.

In the fourth quarter of 2010, Gartner surveyed 1,569 consumers in six countries — the US, UK, China, Japan, Italy and India — about their subjective experiences of reading on screen versus reading printed paper text.

It just doesn't seem natural reading on a screen that small.

The reading experience is not perfect — I consider upgrading to a 30 ″ 4K display, and reading on the screen is not easy on my eyes — but its good - enough.

Two others had trouble assimilating what they were reading on the screen.

In the November issue of Scientific American associate editor Ferris Jabr investigates how reading on paper is different from reading on a screen and whether the brain prefers one over the other.

You know what they're thinking and feeling, even if you're reading it on a screen.

The experts at the Buffer blog recently weighed in with three useful suggestions for anyone writing anything (shortform) that will be read on a screen.

How reading on screens differs from reading on paper is relevant not just to the youngest among us, but to just about everyone who reads — to anyone who routinely switches between working long hours in front of a computer at the office and leisurely reading paper magazines and books at home; to people who have embraced e-readers for their convenience and portability, but admit that for some reason they still prefer reading on paper; and to those who have already vowed to forgo tree pulp entirely.

Use Sans Serif fonts such as Arial, Veranda, or Tahoma for body content and subheadings since these are much easier to read on screens.

Survey data showed that younger age groups are happier to read on screen than older respondents, with the 40 to 54 years cohort least satisfied with their screen reading experience.

With so much reading going on, it's possible that print books are preferred for another completely practical reason: reading on screens tires out your eyes much faster than reading on paper.

You can read it on screen, print it out, pop it on your Kindle... whatever you want.

We've been reading on screens for only about quarter of a century (post-1984 GUI).

It seems she believes people have gotten tired of reading on their screens.

I love it, read on its screen is fantastic but it's so expensive... and It would annoy me that next year Amazon sold a Kindle Color screen...