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Maybe I'm just tired, but both of these were near-uninteligable to me even at the beginning. It could also be simply that I'm a bit compulsive about reading -- I find it impossible to gloss over even a single word that I can't puzzle out, so even the first lines stop me in my tracks even though I can read all the words but one or two.

In any case, if you have the inclination, a version that started even more gently might work better for me.




> if you have the inclination, a version that started even more gently might work better for me.

How's this?

http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple-2.html


I spent quite a bit of time on the first link, but I also quite like this one. I think to me a lot of the value is just gradually introducing a few characters at a time - not really sure about how much my brain is picking up the shapes of the letters subconsciously. Would be interesting to do an experiment.

I would actually prefer that the hints stayed for all the letters, even without a grey line or whatever. I used it very rarely (and have enough self-discipline not to overuse it) but once in a while when I've forgotten a letter, or are not sure, it's a pain to look it up because the hint has disappeared.

It would be fun to experiment with putting this font on my Kindle btw.


When I read that style I feel like I focus on the normal letters and ignore the new characters.


Yeah, I had a similar reaction.

I wonder if it would be interesting to have a hybrid. Like maybe the letters could start out as Roman, then change (one at a time) into the letter-shaped dots, then change (one at a time) into just dots.


This looks much better. I'll report back when I'm done reading.


Cool.

Curious if others like this style better than the original link also.


About half way through, and it's going very well.

I think that I mostly had a problem just understanding the letters of the original font. It's probably harder for me to convert using a normal font, but at least I can read it in general.


Maybe a hybrid between the two would help?


The other seems more effective to me. There is a clash between styles that takes away from the reading on this one.




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