Your post was over a year ago, but I will reply anyway:
I don’t know the answer to the first question, as I am also new.
To the second question, I recommend something like readability where you can clip a page (or sequence) and then read that in a really nice interface through the readability app.
Thank you for the link—this was essentially what I was looking for! I have yet to read the article, but it’s an interesting conclusion—perhaps other commenters were simply going by their intuition or what they felt, instead of looking for evidence?