<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I realize that this may not be the right place for this suggestion. If that is so, my apologies: please pass it on to the correct place. I now have macular degeneration in my second eye. I find it convenient when reading to use a hand-held lighted magnifier and this has brought very clearly to my attention the business of moving attention across the page and then backtracking to the beginning of the next line. . I imagine it would not be insurmountably difficult to lay out alternate lines im opposite directions  and this would remove the problem of wobbling onto the wrong line on the way back. If we could re-train are hence so as to read in alternating directions this might greatly improve the speed and comfort of reading for everyone. I realize that such an advance would bring its own problems, not least whether or not to reverse the direction of the letters within words on alternate lines. However, I do think the idea might possibly be worth pursuing. I propose also ventilated this idea with my favourite publisher, the Oxford University Press. Arnold Bailson in Milton Keynes, UK </body> </html>