"horizontal reading" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe the action of reading something from left to right in a straight line, typically from top to bottom. For example, "In order to understand the story, I had to read it with a horizontal reading".
Birkerts coins his own terms: the deep, devotional practice of "vertical" reading has been supplanted by "horizontal" reading, skimming along the surface.
For instance, if we want to assess quality at the level of OC process, we can easily locate in Table 2 the most comprehensive instrument for this purpose; if we want to evaluate the condition of buildings, a quick horizontal reading of the grid will show us two instruments for this.
After the telescope is adjusted precisely, the two accompanying scales, vertical and horizontal, are read.
The biggish vertical rectangles, divided in places by horizontal lines, read as ambiguously illusory spaces with shadowy, darkly haloed zones emerging from opalescent fog.
Consequently, the local flow components on the film thickness along the horizontal directions read { q x = ∫ S a h u ( x, y, z, t ) d z = γ 3 η ( h − S a ) 3 ( ∂ 3 h ∂ x 3 + ∂ 3 h ∂ x ∂ y 2 ), q y = ∫ S a h v ( x, y, z, t ) d z = γ 3 η ( h − S a ) 3 ( ∂ 3 h ∂ y 3 + ∂ 3 h ∂ y ∂ x 2 ).
Winner of the Robert Brown Award was Shelley Powsner for her mixed-media collage "Migration". Its horizontal format reads like a book with green, taupe and tan pages layered to recede out and pop in, giving the illusion of depth and texture.
Which ones do I need I think you can come on the long & horizontal road of reading.
When using FS only and FS combined with fast cine loop, our results suggest that horizontal viewing procedures reduce reading time compared with vertical viewing procedures.
Printed, the books announce themselves as untraditional, with horizontal lines that read left to right, as on the phone.
It doesn't help that many e-books are formatted for a full screen, so they require vertical and horizontal scrolling to read.
Even if wireless bandwidth constraints mean we have to forgo graphics for a while, we still get a whole screen, which means no horizontal panning to read the kind of web pages we're already used to seeing on the desktop.
