Raise your hand if you’re an e-reader reader 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️

I wasn’t. I was committed to paper. Until my family gifted me a Kindle for Christmas one year. I have since moved to Kobo and Kobo Plus. I will not be caught without my e-reader app now. You can carry it anywhere and take your full library right in your bag. But I also have a degree in human physiology and neuroscience. So grab your e-reader and go to your settings. Let’s make it better for your eyes, your brain, and your reading speed!

It doesn’t matter which e-reader app you’re using, they’ll all have most of these. Go to any full page in your book and get set. If you normally read with glasses or contacts in, grab those, too.

↗️ Margins – A bigger screen means fewer page turns and more reading before you loop a line. I put my margins as small as I can make them. Both my kindle and my ipad have edges already. A visual margin already exists↗️Font Size – Honestly, just play with this until it feels right. There’s no magic number here, but it’s important to set it where you don’t squint or have to hold your e-reader too close or too far. It’s simply one of those things most of us set only when it’s a problem. Set it now while you’re actively choosing the right size!↗️Brightness – This is a biggie! Set it as low as you can still be comfortable. My computer screen is under 25% brightness. This helps reduce eye strain and you probably already know that eye strain is bad and also interferes with your reading!↗️Color – I recommend anything except black text on white screen (which is, of course, the default.) Sepia, green, even white on black should give you less eyestrain issues!

🌟🌟🌟 I don’t know if you did what I did and tried turning my e-reader sideways to see if more text fit on the screen! Yeah. That made sense. The text would have to loop far less often. Oh, massive fail. Most text settings in the books have spaces and this kills it. I keep my e-reader oriented upright now. You don’t have to try that, I did. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️