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> Part of the problem was - no kidding - I needed a new glasses prescription.

Huh, what did the glasses have to do with it? Old prescription making it hard to read text for long periods of time?

Yes I've suffered the same - farsightedness making it hard to focus literally and a slight astigmatism where one eye focuses a little better than the other combine to increase fatigue and make prolonged writing very difficult

With glasses my whole mind relaxes and I can settle right into the zone

Yeah, same here. It turns out I could focus, but it took a lot of brain power to actually and understand text.

Getting new glasses lowered the cognitive load.

Yes, and in my case, it's still hard to read text off a backlit screen, even with the right prescription. I have to use e-ink or paper if I'm going to be reading for a while.

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