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Life Is Too Short to RTFM: How Users Relate to Documentation and Excess Features in Consumer Products | Interacting with Computers | Oxford Academic

academic.oup.com/iwc/article-abstract/28/1/27/2363584

The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Entirely Understand

reactormag.com/the-joy-of-reading-books-you-dont-entirely-understand/
It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”

Omnivore

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BOOX Palma

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The Un-Brie-Lievable History of Tyromancy

saveur.com/culture/tyromancy-cheese-divination/
This fortune-telling practice uses cheese to predict everything from your future spouse to your next career move.

Handbook for Writers - Table of Contents

saylordotorg.github.io/text_handbook-for-writers/index.html

optimal-codestyle

optimal-codestyle.github.io/

How to read more books | Psyche Guides

psyche.co/guides/how-to-make-a-daily-habit-of-reading-more-books

How I read books: a guide on how to learn | by Denys Zhadanov | Dec, 2020 | denzhadanov

denzhadanov.com/how-i-read-books-a-guide-on-how-to-learn-a943123a4aeb
Disclaimer: I’ve spend hours researching this topic and simplifying things for you.It gets a bit nerdy, but if you apply these techniques -> your life can change. Instead of reading 100 books, it’s…

PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later

nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/
Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading. Yet they’re still prevalent and users continue to get lost in them. They’re unpleasant to read and navigate and remain unfit for digital-content display.

Why books don’t work | Andy Matuschak

andymatuschak.org/books/

How People Read Online: New and Old Findings

nngroup.com/articles/how-people-read-online/

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers | At a Loss for Words | APM Reports

apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.

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Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.

Five Books | The best books on everything

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The world's largest collection of expert book recommendations

If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first

austinkleon.com/2019/01/22/if-you-want-to-be-a-writer-you-have-to-be-a-reader-first/

Andika

software.sil.org/andika/
A family designed especially for literacy use, taking into account the needs of beginning readers

Can Fonts Really Help Those With Dyslexia? | | Eye on Design

eyeondesign.aiga.org/can-fonts-really-help-those-with-dyslexia/
As a child, a cat always became a bat. My name was not Maddy but Mubby. Stranger still, a dog would often take the shape of a bog. My German mother would sit me at the kitchen table and tell me to read aloud from a German book; although I was fluent in the language and loved stories, the exercise was painfully boring

How to read | Robert Heaton

robertheaton.com/2018/06/25/how-to-read/

Techniques for the The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (COGA)

w3c.github.io/coga/techniques/