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Reading online or on paper: which is faster?...

Reading online or on paper: which is faster? : H. Kurniawan, P Zaphiris

This paper is about the study of reading, how fast does people read and is there a difference between reading online and reading on paper.
"The result of this study suggest that designers of online information should consider that reading online is slower than on paper, and they should take steps (using bigger font sizes, high contrast between text and background) to enhance online reading speed. Further research on this topic is necessary in order to identify and quantify the different parameters that Mutter and Maurutto (1991) pointed out as possible reasons for differences in online and paper reading speed."
After reading this paper, I have to think about how much text I could use to narrate the story and also what other options are there to bypass this disadvantage of slowness in online reading, voice over, less text, a different medium to which I could put text on (paper) and so forth.

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