Eyes Tired from Reading

Reading makes your eyes tired. The movement from left to right is like watching dozens of cars go by every few minutes. It strains the eye muscles and creates tension. Is that really a bad thing considering the trade off is knowledge? Well, we can watch TV or YouTube for hours, listening to it, and have minimal eye movement, but most of us can't read a book without becoming drowsy. Now I wonder if the left to right eye movement is kind of hypnotic, making people drowsy, and causes them to go in a trance-like state where they're fully engulfed in the book. Who knows.

But getting back to the point at hand, I wonder if there are ways to read without straining the eyes so much.

One method I can think of is flashing words in one fixed location. It takes away the left and right movement all together. But this would require a software program, and the foreground text and background colour has to be one that doesn't cause any seizures, because that could be dangerous.

Or maybe read in columns of single or several words from top to bottom. Maybe moving down the page is easier? I guess that this would be like newspaper articles though, where everything is in columns, but I'm thinking that our could be a lot skinnier to help with the movement.

But also, maybe reading from right to left would be easier, considering that most of the population is right-handed, maybe starting from the right side could be possible, but English is not structured to be written that way, and reading would be difficult.

Or perhaps I could use some of the speed reading techniques to help my eye stay engaged with the text, by using a pen or finger and running it underneath the lines of text. This might tire out the hand, but the eye movement will stay supported.

And maybe use a shorthand writing method that makes reading easier, consisting of how words 'sound' like, and not the true spelling of the words themselves. It'll look like a bunch of dashes and lines though, and there's a steep learning curve, but it could work.

Or use a system like braille or moon script for feeling text instead of seeing them. But that would require punching dots onto the page with a special device. I've crafted a brailler out of paper it in the past, and it works fine, but my brain can't wrap around the backwards lettering. A brailler is a device used to create braille letters. Some braillers work by putting the lettering and sentence backwards, so that when it's flipped it will be the right way for reading. Mine was designed like this, but I have to work really hard to understand it. 

But perhaps the simpliest method is just to use audio functions or text-to-speech programs to read things out loud for you. Sometimes your consentration or focus will go elsewhere and you will start daydreaming, but you would do that anyways while reading normally.

Or watch a movie of that book, but movies never seem to do the book justice. And there's so many things in the book that are not usually included in the movie. But movies are still very fun to watch, and highlights certain scenes from the book. A lot of work goes into movie production. It's neat stuff.

But after writing all this, maybe your eyes are tired. I appologize.