I like reading. I like reading prose, as if I were listening to someone talking.
I also read very fast and I’m very good at skimming prose.
That being said, I strongly dislike bullet points, in most part because they’re not fun to read… But I also find them harder to skim. Indeed, they are usually much denser in terms of information, with much less redundancy, such that every word counts; in other words, no skimming allowed.
I don’t understand why skimming natural text should be any more difficult.
>It’s easier to skim, and build up a high level understanding of a post’s structure
I mean. This is why we have paragraphs, and leading sentences. There are also some of the reasons listed by gjm: there is more logical and contextual information in prose, which makes it easier to skim.
In fact, I would argue that if we’re going to encourage bullet points for easier reading, we could just as well encourage learning to write well...
I like reading. I like reading prose, as if I were listening to someone talking.
I also read very fast and I’m very good at skimming prose.
That being said, I strongly dislike bullet points, in most part because they’re not fun to read… But I also find them harder to skim. Indeed, they are usually much denser in terms of information, with much less redundancy, such that every word counts; in other words, no skimming allowed.
I don’t understand why skimming natural text should be any more difficult.
>It’s easier to skim, and build up a high level understanding of a post’s structure
I mean. This is why we have paragraphs, and leading sentences. There are also some of the reasons listed by gjm: there is more logical and contextual information in prose, which makes it easier to skim.
In fact, I would argue that if we’re going to encourage bullet points for easier reading, we could just as well encourage learning to write well...