Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Chris Collins about book design choices aimed at improving reader experience. Collins explains preferring slightly larger fonts and shorter "two-minute" pages to encourage frequent page-flipping, create a sense of progress, and make readers feel accomplished rather than stuck.
I wanted them to be two minute pages, where every two minutes, you're looking at the other thing and then you're. You're flipping. So the font's a tiny bit bigger. It's funny, we're formatting some books right now, and I told the designer, go make the font a little bigger. And, like, you can't do. I'm like, can't. What are you talking about? It's the. I'd rather have more pages at the end and have somebody get in the rhythm and feel like they're getting ahead than stuck on the. There's just something satisfying about flipping pages. So I thought in the design of the book, to consider the unique person reading it in their experience and try to create an experience that would give them value and make them feel like they were, you know, accomplishing something.
