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Comment by socalgal2 | original | Bug Blindness
[−]socalgal2 · 2026-08-30 Sun 03:08 UTC · link
> I find it difficult/distracting to move my eyes to the beginning of the next line every few seconds.

You must find it difficult to read books, magazines, newspapers, as all of them have short lines

[−]lmm · 2026-08-30 Sun 07:31 UTC · link
I am in the same boat as GP, and I wonder if it's one of the reasons I migrated hard to ebooks and online magazines/newspapers as soon as that became possible and never looked back.
[−]mrob · 2026-08-30 Sun 10:38 UTC · link
The bad text formatting in printed works (including the bizarre decision to sacrifice useful vertical position cues ("ragged right") to imitate the technique medieval scribes used to reassure their patrons they weren't wasting valuable parchment ("full justification")) is a big reason why I avoid them whenever possible.