Comments on: Resolution Independence http://vgable.com/blog/2008/03/31/resolution-independence/ my weblog. Thu, 17 May 2012 17:13:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vincent Gable http://vgable.com/blog/2008/03/31/resolution-independence/comment-page-1/#comment-579 Vincent Gable Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:32:10 +0000 http://vgable.com/blog/2008/03/31/resolution-independence/#comment-579 March 9, 2009 <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/kindle-usability-review.html" rel="nofollow">Jakob Nielsen finds the Kindle to be as fast as paper</a>, <blockquote>As an experiment, I bought two copies of the same book: a trade paperback and a Kindle download. Alternating for each chapter, I read half the book in print and half on the Kindle screen. <strong>My reading speed was exactly the same (less than 0.5% difference), measured in words per minute.</strong> Of course, one person reading one book is not a proper measurement study. So I can't say for sure that Kindle has finally reached the nirvana of equal readability for screens and paper. But it did feel that way.</blockquote> March 9, 2009 Jakob Nielsen finds the Kindle to be as fast as paper,

As an experiment, I bought two copies of the same book: a trade paperback and a Kindle download. Alternating for each chapter, I read half the book in print and half on the Kindle screen. My reading speed was exactly the same (less than 0.5% difference), measured in words per minute.

Of course, one person reading one book is not a proper measurement study. So I can’t say for sure that Kindle has finally reached the nirvana of equal readability for screens and paper. But it did feel that way.

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