Chris Virtue wrote: > Stuart Burnfield wrote: >> Chris Virtue said: >>> Simple - people hate reading off screens. >> >> Do they? Do you have data on that? > > None that I can quote directly, but Gloria Gery did quite a lot of > research into those things back in the late 80s and into the 90s. Monitors have greatly improved since then, so I'm wary of quoting research from 10-20 years ago, other than for historical interest. From my own experience: I found reading on a monitor much more difficult in those days than I do now. No doubt that was partly a matter of lack of familiarity with reading onscreen, but I am convinced that a lot (if not most) of it was the (lack of) quality of the display on many/most common monitors in those days. --Jean ************************************************** To view the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field (without quotes). To manage your subscription (e.g., set and unset DIGEST and VACATION modes) go to www.freelists.org/list/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************