Reading aids

Oct 22, 2020

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In our post-literate society, we are surrounded by reading aids, tools that improve our reading and memorisation and help us organise information more effectively. It's so pervasive we don't even see it. Pictograms, infograms, highlighting, typographical emphasis (b…

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