Having your moniter lower than the line of sight prevents this and
improves blinking. This is how i cured my dry eye.
-Suman
Also it is good to think of conciously blinking to rewet the eye. In
front of computer screens people blink three times less often than off
screen (and even less when con
ashok wrote:
For a while now I have been reading scanned / digital books on a
laptop screen.
Some of these books are out of print nowadays (or otherwise hideously
expensive to purchase
in printed form).
Even after setting the glare and contrast factors to a comfortably low
intensity, i g
Listening is easier than reading :-).
Is it possible to set the speech synth rate to "auctioneer"? I had
tried this several years ago but gave up on it because listening is
significantly, even annoyingly, slower than reading.
-Dave
(the text above takes about 9 seconds with the default Mac
>>apparently borges was also blind, and never learnt braille.
Borges was not exactly born blind..though he had eyesight problem all along...his sight detoriated over the years till he was totally blind...and he was actually a librarian twice...once as a junior librarian and later after the change o
(just tested the ipod reader thingit
seems to work ! the only minor glitch is the formatting of
the text is a bit offbut that is
probably because of the )
sastry wrote on 08/11/2006 10:32:54 AM:
> (at the oldest). After that your eyesight starts playing up
and you start
> looking for
Hmmma google revealed that this
is possible by converting a text e-book to an ipod note..
Should try this
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote on 08/11/2006 07:01:14 AM:
> Has anyone used their iPods for reading a book? Would that be any
better?
>
> Cheeni
>
On Fri August 11 2006 9:31 am, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
> I used to use a Palm Tungsten device and plucker or PDBreader, but the
> phone is much easier to hold.
One sound idea in this connection would be NOT to grow any older than 30 years
(at the oldest). After that your eyesight starts playin
On 8/10/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> Any suggestions for more comfortable alternatives?
It's your neck
You cannot move a laptop around like you move a book and it's probably your
neck muscles that are playing up.
Get a laptop that weighs 200 grams that you can hold up like a b
On Thu August 10 2006 3:44 pm, ashok wrote:
> i get severe
> headaches after reading text from a screen for extended periods of time
> (its not my
> eye sight - i got that checked )
>
> Any suggestions for more comfortable alternatives?
It's your neck
You cannot move a laptop around like you mov
On 10/08/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 2006-08-10 18:41:35 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> You can get Carl-Zeiss lenses with anti-glare coating.
My plain old non-Carl Zeiss lenses from Lawrence & Mayo's also have an
anti-reflective coating (I've had it for many years,
At 2006-08-10 18:41:35 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> You can get Carl-Zeiss lenses with anti-glare coating.
My plain old non-Carl Zeiss lenses from Lawrence & Mayo's also have an
anti-reflective coating (I've had it for many years, and I like it). I
gather you can get coated lenses from many
On 8/10/06, ashok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i tried wearing anti-glare spectaclesbut they are not so comfortable,
and a bit heavy
on the nose...
You can get Carl-Zeiss lenses with anti-glare coating. These are like
normal lenses and not like anti-glare clip-ons which are cumbersome.
I am
On 10-Aug-06, at 11:14 AM, ashok wrote:
Any suggestions for more comfortable alternatives?
Check out
http://tinyurl.com/kywqe
and
http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad
Cheers
#!
i tried wearing anti-glare spectaclesbut
they are not so comfortable, and a bit heavy
on the nose...
Yes...most of it is gutenberg text or in other cases
PDF
I do like your suggestion of using vim white on black
text
> What format are these ? I used to read some text
downloaded from
>
On 8/10/06, ashok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Even after setting the glare and contrast factors to a comfortably low
intensity, i get severe
headaches after reading text from a screen for extended periods of time
(its not my
eye sight - i got that checked )
Any suggestions for more comfortable al
How about anti-glare glasses, which most opticians should be able to provide you with? They helped me a great deal. I also have an anti-glare screen, which obviously isn't as readily attainable as the specs, but the specs alone should really make a difference.
Supriya.On 8/10/06, ashok <[EMAIL PROT
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