Talk:2019 Holiday Update/@comment-44423282-20191224224832/@comment-31458611-20191225024259

Did you know that people have different reading patterns?

Like, it's not every human that reads western-style texts from left to right, top > bottom, first > last page. Case in point, in the 90's I used to subscribe the paper incarnation of PC Magazine. Back then, they published an intriguing survey on reading habits according to which no less than 10% of their habitual readers usually read the magazine from the back cover to the front cover.

IOW, those readers first waded thru several tens of pages of classified ads and "cont'd from p. XXX" snippets before reaching the featured articles' headlines and the TOC. I can't overemphasize how much relieved and comforted I felt when I learned that I was not alone... that we idiosyncratic subscribers amounted to no less than 10% of their readership!

Then, in the early 10's, I had an epiphany: finally realized that I had unconsciously developed an odd habit of (actually) reading tl;dr and abismally not very well punctuated forum posts from the outside in, that is, like an onion: from both first and last sentences at once (feasible when the display resolution is suitable for a small enough font) to the middle.

All the verbiage above is what I felt I must explain in order to apologize having stopped reading at "yet so yeah humongous". Sorry!