i can, but why would you?

To make boring material more interesting
For fun
To show off
and for the reasons listed in the earlier posts



How does it put stress on the eyes? Is it because we are not used to reading English upside down?
Even if it does put stress on the eyes, it is probably minimal compared to the stress of many other factors in our lives. Also, most unfamiliar things cause some level of stress. It does not mean that we should only stick with the familiar.

This forum says that some children read better upside down: http://www.healthboards.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-186283 .html

My old question: Why would reading upside down be bad for the eyes?
My new question: Why would reading upside down be "not good" for the eyes?

I can (with major squintage) but like everyone else I must question: why would I?

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(and part of the yaoi scanlation group
Terribletrio!)

It's a skill that I used to do pretty well but has become less meaningful these days I can only do it decently now

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I can read upside down just fine. Since 2006 I've been reading every book in my mother tongue upside down, unless they were poetry or consisted of scientific texts.

I consider it a usefull skill if you want to read something to children. During my childhood, illustrated children's books were read to me that way, so that I could look at the pictures while listening, and later, I used the same method whenever I read fairy tales to a children.

Besides, it's quite fun actually because it slows down my reading pace for a bit, and therefore, it prevents me form finishing a book in one day. And it offers you more opportunities (to read texts other people are still writing, to find out puzzles like the inscription of the Mirror of Erised from Harry Potter...)


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"Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to.
He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts

To be savoured:
- Blood Alone by TAKANO Masayuki
- Otoyomegatari by MORI Kaoru
- Gangsta. by Kohske
- Seishun Kouryakuhon by AKIZUKI Sorata

I can but after a while I start getting dizzy.