Reading issues.

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Have you looked into large print versions of the books? Good libraries have a copy of two of popular books in large print. I'm not sure what kinds of things you are reading. I sometimes find myself yelling at the copy editor of a book for doing such a horrible job. And the publisher for allowing the hack copy editor to get away with such a horrible job. I'll go off on an extended overly dramatic speech about how poor copy editing is the cause of all societal ills and nobody ever hears it but me. It is therapeutic, I don't care if they think it is a psychoses.

I loaned a book about dealing with shyness and social phobia a few weeks ago from the library, unfotunatly when I opened it the text looked very compact and daunting, so I didn't read It.

Maybe large print would help, but I think it would limit my available choices.

If I can find a solution to my problem I could have the pick of anything in my large local library.

It is of course always possible you just need reading glasses. Or a magnifying glass that mounts on the book. Or have you ever tried using a ruler/sheet of paper/straigh thing or a finger to trace under where you are reading? I often use my right index finger to keep my place as I'm reading a book that doesn't double space. I've got one of my creative mythology books here next to me so I popped it open and started reading a section that has one page that is two paragraphs on the entire page. Two paragraphs talking about what "god" is and is not in a specific mythology. Broken down with logic:

And it gets trippier from there, and I realized I use my finger to keep my place as I pause to write up what I'm reading on my mental white board. Also, I love creative mythology. I just thought I would share that. If I couldn't read what I wanted to I would be even more insane than I am.

Hello Justin6378,

There is also the solution of the recorded books.

Once, they were for blind people and there was not much choice but nowadays, there are plenty of them since a lot of people like to listen to them while driving or doing anything that occupies the hands but leave the head free.

Most of them are novels I think but you can learn about humanity in novels. And how to be more at ease in such or such situation.

That quote sounds very interesting!
*goes off topic on own thread*

If god is Indead the dreamer, what does this imply about our percieved view of our physical universe?
if we are but a dream, an imagined reality, who is the dreamer?
why is he considered a deity?
It may be the case that "god" is just a man, much like us, in an alternative reality.
But this poses the question, who is gods "god"? and how many layers of reality?
When I sleep do I myself become "god"?
If so, could we consider everbody a god?

Thanks zena4!

Books on tape would be a last resort as i like to read and put my own interitation on the voices.

There could also be a problem if the narator speaks with an unusual accent, pitch or prenunciation.
The rewind button would get a lot of use.

The solution to your problem is very low tech. I've used it myself for extremely dense books that use small type and close spacing to cram more onto a page.

Get an index card or a small ruler and hold it under the line you are reading. Even lower tech is to just follow the text with your finger, which I've done with text walls on computer screens.

A technique a colleague of mine (who's NT, I think?) uses to help him read lines of text on the computer screen, is to select the sentence he's reading with the mouse. This highlights it by inversing the colors, causing it to be easier to read.

I would suggest this, that way the sentences below won't distract you.


My problem with reading is, that if I'm not very interested in a subject (or if part of a book gets a little too difficult for me to comprehend) I tend to start day dreaming >_<
And big blocks of text, that just go on and on, don't help either. I'll keep reading, but I won't register a word of what I've read.
Though when a text is divided into smaller blocks, it's so much easier and it manages to hold my attention for much longer.