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About Live Ink®

Live Ink® technology was developed by Dr. Randall Walker, an internist at the Mayo Clinic, who came to understand that everyone could read better if the way the words were presented was more consistent with the way our eyes and brain actually work. Live Ink patented formatting helps poor readers, average readers, and above average readers improve the speed at which they process and comprehend written information, and it substantially increases the quantity and quality of what they are able to retain and accurately recall. Major educational publishers at the elementary, secondary and college levels have added award winning Live Ink formatting to increase the reach and effectiveness of their online publications.

The Live Ink Effect

Live Ink formatting strengthens reading power, immediately and significantly, for all readers — particularly when they are reading passages that are relatively challenging for them. In controlled studies on a wide range of readers (from the 4th grade through college), Live Ink formatting, when read regularly from
a computer screen, has been scientifically proven to:

     1) Immediately increase reading comprehension
     2) Boost overall long-term accurate retention of material read
     3) Improve reading proficiency when the reader returns to traditional block-text format, and
     4) Lessen the eyestrain associated with reading from a computer monitor

How It Works

Live Ink formatting does three things that improve our ability to visually process text:

• Displays text in shorter lines
• Breaks text in grammatically meaningful segments
• Indents text to cue the brain to the relative importance of phrases within a sentence

In simple terms, any digital content converted to Live Ink formatting helps people read with greater comprehension and retention, with more efficiency and less effort.

Visit the peer-reviewed scientific research results in Reading Online, a publication of the International Reading Association.