Many of us are fond of reading books. Good books are true friends of ours. Today we are switching more to e-books than printed books. zero maintenance, no heavy loads, smaller spaces , portability are some of the obvious features associated with reading e-books. But many of us would still like to use print books. The physical touch, ease of reading and among other things are some of the benefits associated with print books. But many of us like print books also because they suffer problem of eye-stressing during reading from computer, laptop, i-pad or anything else. There are also some other problem associated with reading books such as:
Inability to concentrate due to eye strains
why this problem occurs:Continuous staring on monitor while we are lost somewhere else. Also scrapping tiny texts using our delicate eyes from huge volume of text is a difficult task and causes strain on our eye.
This problem can coped in following way:
1)take break after 30 minutes or so.
2)adjust brightness of you screen
3)Adjust reading option in adobe.
4)Adjust contrast in your browser.
4)for a long paragraph use natural reader which can reduce strain on the eye
Take break after 30 minutes or so
Watching a movie is altogether different from adjusting your focal length of the eye by straining it to watch tiny pieces of text. It usually happens that a person continue to stare on his/her screen for a long time because while reading on screen he/she gets lost somewhere. It is good to be lost but when you regain our conscience please do not forget to take break. Do read a lot but don't do injustice with your eyes. After 30 minutes or so do the following:
1. Relax your eyes and look for some far objects. Looking at trees or natural green colors is good.
2. Rotate you eyes clockwise and then anti--clockwise to revert your eyes back to their relaxed position.
Adjust brightness of you screen
Your eyes will be strained a lot if brightness of the screen is not adjusted as following:
(i)Under too much lightening your brightness is less.
(ii)Under dimmer lightening conditions you screen has higher brightness.
The reason for both lies in contrast. Your eye receives two different lights with differing intensity. Thus a lot of strains is put on your eyes to adjust its focal lengths in an endevour to sense both lights.
Tip: Adjust your screen brightness to lesser in darker region and higher in areas of higher lightening(or even sunlight) .
Adjust reading option in adobe
While you are reading on adobe reader the reading experience may be painful because of following reasons:
So to get ride of the problem(1), you should set adobe reader screen to full screen. This can be done by using shortcut CTRL+L or in view menu selecting Full Screen Mode(view>Full Screen Mode).
To get ride of the second problem you have to set white text on black background on adobe reader as follows:
1) In the adobe reader go to edit.
2)Select edit->preferences.
3)Click on accessibility menu in Categories.
A snapshot of the window appearing is shown below:
- Inability to concentrate due to eye strains
- Referral of a picture:- Suppose some e-book or pdf refers to some figure then we have to all the way scroll from one page to another. This spoils reading experience.
- Deviation due to availability of internet(Which you might be doing right now!!) and clicking from here to there.
Inability to concentrate due to eye strains
why this problem occurs:Continuous staring on monitor while we are lost somewhere else. Also scrapping tiny texts using our delicate eyes from huge volume of text is a difficult task and causes strain on our eye.
This problem can coped in following way:
1)take break after 30 minutes or so.
2)adjust brightness of you screen
3)Adjust reading option in adobe.
4)Adjust contrast in your browser.
4)for a long paragraph use natural reader which can reduce strain on the eye
Take break after 30 minutes or so
Watching a movie is altogether different from adjusting your focal length of the eye by straining it to watch tiny pieces of text. It usually happens that a person continue to stare on his/her screen for a long time because while reading on screen he/she gets lost somewhere. It is good to be lost but when you regain our conscience please do not forget to take break. Do read a lot but don't do injustice with your eyes. After 30 minutes or so do the following:
1. Relax your eyes and look for some far objects. Looking at trees or natural green colors is good.
2. Rotate you eyes clockwise and then anti--clockwise to revert your eyes back to their relaxed position.
Adjust brightness of you screen
Your eyes will be strained a lot if brightness of the screen is not adjusted as following:
(i)Under too much lightening your brightness is less.
(ii)Under dimmer lightening conditions you screen has higher brightness.
The reason for both lies in contrast. Your eye receives two different lights with differing intensity. Thus a lot of strains is put on your eyes to adjust its focal lengths in an endevour to sense both lights.
Tip: Adjust your screen brightness to lesser in darker region and higher in areas of higher lightening(or even sunlight) .
Adjust reading option in adobe
While you are reading on adobe reader the reading experience may be painful because of following reasons:
- Other menu option of the adobe reader and task bar etc. may distracting.
- Usually black text are displayed on white background. The white color has highest intensity of the light and most of the space is covered by white background. Thus a heavy intensity of light is reaching your eyes and you should prevent it from happening.
So to get ride of the problem(1), you should set adobe reader screen to full screen. This can be done by using shortcut CTRL+L or in view menu selecting Full Screen Mode(view>Full Screen Mode).
To get ride of the second problem you have to set white text on black background on adobe reader as follows:
1) In the adobe reader go to edit.
2)Select edit->preferences.
3)Click on accessibility menu in Categories.
A snapshot of the window appearing is shown below:
4)Check replace document colors.
5)Click on the custom color radio button and from now you can adjust background color as well as text color.
By changing background color to black and test color to white you can save your eyes from high intensity.
Adjust Contrast in your browser
Adjusting contrast in browsers can also be effective as there is in adobe reader described above. To do so, you have to download add on for your browser. Using them you can do the same task.
Referral of a Picture
When a author refers a picture in a book in a technical writing we can always easily turn pages in printed books but in e-books or pdf is pain in the ass and is really frustrating sometimes. One of the following ways can be adopted for the same problem.
Use a text to voice converter software
This may be very helpful to concentrate on a diagram when a diagram is being referred to in a book. Use a software which converts text to speech. One of such software is natural reader available at http://www.naturalreaders.com/. The snapshot of the same is given below.
5)Click on the custom color radio button and from now you can adjust background color as well as text color.
By changing background color to black and test color to white you can save your eyes from high intensity.
Adjust Contrast in your browser
Adjusting contrast in browsers can also be effective as there is in adobe reader described above. To do so, you have to download add on for your browser. Using them you can do the same task.
Referral of a Picture
When a author refers a picture in a book in a technical writing we can always easily turn pages in printed books but in e-books or pdf is pain in the ass and is really frustrating sometimes. One of the following ways can be adopted for the same problem.
Use a text to voice converter software
This may be very helpful to concentrate on a diagram when a diagram is being referred to in a book. Use a software which converts text to speech. One of such software is natural reader available at http://www.naturalreaders.com/. The snapshot of the same is given below.
You can be looking at you diagram while you are the text to speech converter continues to explain the figure.
Copy the figure
This can be done but is also a painstaking task . Copy the figure and save it and open it in a image viewer. You can simultaneously look at your figure, while you can switch to your page using ALT+TAB.
Copy the figure
This can be done but is also a painstaking task . Copy the figure and save it and open it in a image viewer. You can simultaneously look at your figure, while you can switch to your page using ALT+TAB.
Deviation due to availability of the internet
Availability of internet in your PC or laptop may be a reason for distraction while you are reading e-book. This option is not available in the printed books and thus you are saved there. Also if you try running from one window to other it will be hard to learn anything. To save yourself from the same, you should do following tasks:
1. Pomodoro Technique: This technique is a proven technique in neuroscience. It asks you to prevent yourself from distraction for an interval of 25 minutes. After 25 minutes offer yourself a reward like coffee,song. Read more about this on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
2. Stay in the subject : Until unless extremely required don't go on searching everything you don't understand. Keep applying you mind. Until unless extremely necessary don't search.
3.Use full screen mode in adobe reader : This can prevent you a lot from distraction. You are saved from looking into browser, task bar etc.
Availability of internet in your PC or laptop may be a reason for distraction while you are reading e-book. This option is not available in the printed books and thus you are saved there. Also if you try running from one window to other it will be hard to learn anything. To save yourself from the same, you should do following tasks:
1. Pomodoro Technique: This technique is a proven technique in neuroscience. It asks you to prevent yourself from distraction for an interval of 25 minutes. After 25 minutes offer yourself a reward like coffee,song. Read more about this on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
2. Stay in the subject : Until unless extremely required don't go on searching everything you don't understand. Keep applying you mind. Until unless extremely necessary don't search.
3.Use full screen mode in adobe reader : This can prevent you a lot from distraction. You are saved from looking into browser, task bar etc.