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What I took away from this interview was that some people read with their eyes alone, and others listen to their subvocalization of the words on the page. I know, for example, that I do the latter, making me a much slower reader than someone in the former group.
In college I had a blind professor who would ask us to visit his office when each paper was due to read it aloud to him and his tape recorder. He would use that to grade the paper and type up comments to return to us.
I learned from this a rule that I use in all of my writing: if it doesn't sound good out loud, it doesn't work on paper, either. I haven't seen an exception to this rule yet, and reading aloud has helped me find a lot of clunky writing of my own.
----->Mike
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