Patent Publication Number: US-6669480-B2

Title: Text line underscoring and overscoring method and implementation devices

Description:
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     1. Field of Invention 
     This invention relates to rapid reading methods and reading pointers, and specifically to underscoring methods for the rapid reading of common text, and to devices which implement the methods of underscoring common text. 
     2. Description of Prior Art 
     Other than “generic pointers” used as a means of teaching students to read faster, or used by ordinary readers to mark and pace their reading, nothing germane to pointers used in the method of the invention for reading purposes appears to have been patented, sold, or suggested in any material that appears in the public domain. “Generic pointers,” that is pointing fingers or objects, such as pens or pencils, are the only known prior art implementation devices that have been commonly used as training or continuous use devices operated in connection with either teaching a student to read faster, or for common use by any reader. 
     The patent data base reveals that numerous patents have been obtained for “reading devices” in the form of complex mechanisms which all either use the generic method of the prior art, which is to directly, transversely scan text lines with a generic pointer or a light beam, or to sweep a generic pointer in a downwardly disposed, vertical arc across a page of reading material while the generic pointer is held approximately parallel to the reading material by a complex mechanism. None of these diverse patents either imply or otherwise suggest the method of the present invention. Moreover, the prior art of generic pointer utilization appears to teach away from utilizing an indirect or removed method of marking and pacing a reader&#39;s position in the reading material, as is done in the method of the present invention. 
     Those skilled in the art of teaching students faster reading, otherwise know as “rapid reading,” or “speed reading,” typically teach a reading method wherein a generic pointer, usually a finger or a generic object, such as a pen or other pointing implementation device, is pointed toward the text lines. The pointer tip is then targeted below the text line to be read, i.e., toward the straight, linear space which extends in-between the text lines to be read. The student reader is then taught to move the pointer tip horizontally, left-to-right, through the linear space below the text line, then move the pointer tip downward one linear space as the pointer tip is returned right-to-left. This cyclical, zigzag process of pointer tip movement through the sequential, downwardly disposed linear spaces continues until the end of the page, and begins anew at the start of the next page. The movement of the pointer tip in this manner typically requires that the non-pointing end of the pointer be grasped with the thumb and fingers as the wrist and arm move back and forth to carry the pointer tip in the described zigzag-shuttling and downward movement. The pointer is typically held so that its tip is continuously nearly, or actually touching the surface of the print matter or virtual display monitor text lines being read. This zigzag-shuttling process of passing a moving pointer tip in an approximately straight, horizontal manner, at an approximately even distance from the surface of the reading material, through the linear spaces below and parallel to the text lines is generally known as “underscoring.” An underscoring pointer tip emphasizes the reader&#39;s linear space positioning below a text line, thus enabling a reader to position his eyes for the reading of the words above the pointer tip within the linear space. Thus the prior art of rapid or speed reading teaches that underscoring, as a method of both keeping place and pacing left-to-right linear reading, should be a process wherein the words and phrases within a text line are emphasized by passing a pointing finger or object beneath a line of text in the manner just described. 
     Once a student has learned this method of underscoring and has become a faster reader, he or she may often use an inverted method of underscoring wherein the moving pointer tip is targeted toward the linear space above, rather than below, a text line to be read. To differentiate underscoring from this inverted use process, it will be referred to as “overscoring.” Overscoring is performed during awkward circumstances of reading, such as when attempting to read a legal brief while it lies flat on a surface immediately in front of the reader. To avoid arm movement next to his body, the reader may choose to move his hand and wrist above the text lines to be read, invert the pointer, and then bend the wrist to aim the pointer tip downward toward the linear spaces above the text lines. The reader then targets the linear space above the text line to be read and initiates pointer tip movements in the same general manner as described for underscoring. That is, the reader initiates a shuttling-zigzag, downwardly moving wrist and arm movement process that carries the pointer tip in an approximately straight, horizontal manner, at an approximately even distance from the surface of the reading material. An overscoring pointer tip emphasizes the reader&#39;s linear space positioning above a text line, thus enabling a reader to position his eyes for the reading of the words below the pointer tip within the linear space. Overscoring is thus the procedural equivalent of underscoring, but is performed from a linear space above a text line rather than below a text line. 
     The prior art underscoring and overscoring methods are intended to have the reader realize at some level of awareness that his eyes will naturally follow the tip area of the moving pointer while he or she is simultaneously reading the text line. In this way the reader realizes that as the pointer tip is properly controlled at higher rates of shuttling, the reader&#39;s eyes will shuttle faster, and he or she will read faster. 
     In the prior art method, one problem that many people using these types of underscoring or overscoring methods encounter is that the performance of such pointer motions as described above are both tedious and fatiguing to the wrist or arm, and, if done improperly with the fingers, leads to friction burns with the surface of the reading material. Also, when an object, such as a pen, is used to read text at a high rate, the pointer often touches against the surface of the page and makes distracting noises. And as well, many people feel self-conscious about performing the exaggerated wrist and arm motions that are required by these prior art underscoring or overscoring methods. It thus often happens that despite having learned an effective method of underscoring or overscoring text lines to read faster, many students regress to their previous, slower reading habits. 
     It is also obvious when randomly observing ordinary readers reading in a library and during other reading circumstances, that many such readers frequently utilize a pointer of some kind, typically a pen or pencil, whether reading general or technical material. These readers seem to nearly continuously utilize such pointers apparently because it is preferable to them. That is, they appear to appreciate having the ability to rapidly scan through numerous lines of text presently irrelevant to them, and then use the pointer repeatedly at temporary stopping points for focused concentration on particular key words or phrases before again moving on to a higher scan rate. 
     Another problem that student and general readers using a pointer from the prior art typically encounter is that they often must confront reading matter in three basic, but very different reading positions. The first position is when the material is laying on a flat surface. The second position is when the material is angled up to a typical 45°, as when it is held in the reader&#39;s lap or hands. And the third common position is when the reading material is angled up to a head-on confrontation at 90°, as when holding a book on edge in front of the face or when confronting a computer display monitor mounted directly in front of the face. Each of these positions poses a unique challenge to the reader using a generic pointing means as a method of underscoring or overscoring lines of text to be read. These challenges are then compounded as the reader varies his line of sight with respect to the flat, angled or perpendicular text before him, e.g., by standing, sitting, or moving to various side or prone positions. In many of these circumstances of reading, it becomes increasingly awkward to attempt to use a generic pointer to underscore text lines. 
     SUMMARY 
     An improved text line underscoring and overscoring method, and devices used to implement the improved method, having a graspable, longitudinally elongated, control member, which may be grasped between the thumb and fingers at one end, and having an upward-and-downward, movably angleable connection at an opposite control member end, which is further connective with a non-pointing end of an elongated, transverse pointer arm, which pointer arm extends to an opposite pointing end, so that when the thumb and fingers twist the control member in alternating directions, the non-pointing end of the pointer arm will be urged to rotate in alternate directions, irrespective of the upward or downward angle to which it has been set, and the opposite pointing end of the pointer arm will be urged to shuttle left and right at that set angle, so that the opposite pointing end can be utilized by a reader to place in his line of sight with respect to the intervening linear spaces of text lines to be read, and so be enabled to underscore or overscore the text lines to be read. 
     Objects and Advantages 
     Accordingly, the primary objects and advantages of the present invention of an improved text line underscoring or overscoring method and its implementation devices, either as an aid to a student&#39;s rapid reading training, or as a continuously used assisting device for the general reader when reading, are: a. to provide an improved method of underscoring and overscoring the text lines of common text to be read, utilizing a vertically movably angleable pointer arm which is forced to move in a horizontal arc; b. to provide operational embodiments of the device which implement the improved method; so that, c. the improved method and implementation devices will then easily control the movement of a pointer arm tip during the improved underscoring or overscoring process, irrespective of the angular positioning of the text lines to be read, and irrespective of the reader&#39;s line of sight, and which will additionally allow for immediate, temporary stoppage of the pointer tip for accentuating specific words and phrases. 
     The new method of text line underscoring and overscoring is based on the fact that the brain and eyes process a multitude of sensory informational data simultaneously at different priority levels of awareness. If an observer points a finger at a distant object, the observer has a low level of awareness that his finger is pointing, and a higher level of awareness of the distant object to which he or she is pointing. If the distant object moves and the observer rotates his arm and pointing finger to follow it, the same levels of awareness apply. The observer knows at some level that his arm is turning and that a finger is pointing, but again, the higher level focus is on the object beyond the observer&#39;s pointing finger. Thus, irrespective of the angular change in the pointing arm-finger, the observer&#39;s mind “looks past” the foreground objects of the arm and pointing finger and only really focuses on the object beyond the pointing finger. 
     The prior art teaches that underscoring and overscoring should be done in a direct manner using a pointer which is held slightly angled or parallel to the surface of the text, and as close to the text as possible, with the pointer tip being moved horizontally through the linear spaces of the text to be read. The improved method of the present invention reveals that underscoring is performed in a more efficient and effective indirect way when the reader utilizes an adjustably angleable pointer which is swinging across the linear spaces as a transverse, extended radius, or “arm,” emanating from a longitudinal axis which is rotating in alternating directions. Since the reader can easily “see past” the moving arc of the swinging pointer tip to focus on the text line extended in the imaginary line being traced beyond the moving radial pointer tip, control over the pointer and its tip is passed to the means by which the pointer is made to swing. Using the new method of the invention, a reader sees past a pointer tip which is being moved in a 90° arc through a linear space, and so is enabled to underscore or overscore text lines in a simpler, more effective, and more comfortable manner. 
     The improved device of the improved method typically has an elongated, rigid, or flexibly rigid, “control member,” which is inclusive of, or further provided with a graspable “control surface” which can be grasped between the thumb and fingers. The control member is the controllable instrumentation by which an angled, radial “pointer arm” is made to swing across the linear spaces of the text lines. This is done by making the non-grasping end of the control member movably angleably connective with the non-pointing end of a pointer, which is then called the “pointer arm” of the control member. When the thumb and fingers twist the control member longitudinally in alternating directions, the non-pointing end of the transverse pointer arm is urged to rotate, and the opposite pointing end of the pointer arm, that is, the pointer tip, shuttles left and right in a 90° arc. 
     When the reader then aligns the shuttling pointer tip in his line of sight toward the intervening linear spaces of the text lines, the reader&#39;s eyes will naturally follow the pointer tip movement as it swings on the swinging pointer arm being rotated in alternate directions by the twisting of the control member, irrespective of the pointer arm angle on its movably angleable connection with the control member. And again, the method and device operates as described because of the way in which the human optical system operates within the brain. Although the pointer tip traces out a shallow arc as it swings on the pointer arm, the reader&#39;s eyes naturally focus “past” the moving pointer tip and so focus on the words in the text. The shuttling motion of the pointer tip guides the reader&#39;s eye motions in a smooth and continuous, oscillating manner, even as the reader&#39;s mind ignores the moving pointer tip and processes the words in the text lines. 
     The initial, intuitive objections to the use of a shuttling pointer tip for text line underscoring and overscoring are essentially groundless, these speculations being that such a device will be awkward and counter-productive to the reading process. In fact, the very opposite is true: the device provides for the implementation of a more efficient method for improving or maintaining faster reading skills. Moreover, the initial use of the device often produces startling results. When a reader does not expect that his eyes can read lines in a continuous manner, and then experiences it for the first time using the implementation device of the new method, the typical result is mild surprise. 
     These improvements to a text line underscoring and overscoring method and implementation devices will have the further advantages of providing: a. a pointer arm that can be effectively adjusted to a temporarily held rest angle position for varying reader needs; b. a movably angled pointer arm that is rotatable in alternate directions about a longitudinal axis; c. a smoothly moving pointing tip that is easily controlled in an accurate, non-fatiguing, comfortable way, and which allows smooth and swift continuous sweeps left-to-right, and quick return sweeps right-to-left; d. a pointer arm tip that is easily and quickly stopped beneath troublesome words or phrases; e. a simple, lightweight, efficient, inexpensive, easily operated and controlled, portable text underscoring or overscoring device that can act in lieu of the more difficult to utilize prior art finger and object pointing methods which require tedious, fatiguing wrist or arm movements for effective operation; f. a pointer arm tip which, when properly operated to read text at a high rate, does not touch the surface of the page and make distracting noises, and as well eliminates the possibility of finger friction against the surface of the text. 
     The invention additionally comprehends alternate embodiments with control members that combine with writing instruments for convenient note-taking, highlighting, etc., and as well comprehends an added-on gripping means for easy text page turning, and so a more continuous reading rate. 
     And again, it is obvious that many ordinary readers are frequent users of generic pointing means, apparently because it is preferable to them. That is, they appear to appreciate having the ability to rapidly scan through numerous lines of text presently irrelevant to them, and then use the pointer repeatedly as a temporary stopping point for focused concentration on particular key words or phrases before again moving on to a higher scan rate. To such readers, having an inexpensive, portable, durable, reliable, accurate and efficient pointer device operating in terms of the new method which the present invention provides would be extremely useful, and he or she would gain from the numerous other indicated advantages of using the new method and new device on a routine basis. The new method and device would thus have an overall appeal, and be universally useful both to students of rapid reading, and to all readers who frequently use generic pointers to read. The present invention also comprehends numerous alternate embodiments, all of which have the object of providing a simple, lightweight, efficient, inexpensive, durable, accurate, non-fatiguing, comfortable, easily grasped, operated and controlled, portable, text line underscoring or overscoring device. 
     For economy and clarity in the specification below, the reference term “reader,” will be utilized to indicate a person who reads text lines and who is a user of the method or an implementation device of the method of the present invention. Also for economy and clarity, only the reference pronouns “he,” “his,” or “him,” will be used in the specification below, but it should be understood that the reference term “reader,” and the reference pronouns cited are intended to refer to both genders. Also, to avoid confusion in the specification below, the term “overscoring” will be used throughout the specification to indicate underscoring which is being done from a linear space above a text line to be read, with the understanding that underscoring and overscoring are the same process being conducted from different positional contexts. And also, for purposes of clarity in the specification to follow, each new addition of a dashed, arrowpointed, directional line will be introduced as either a Single Arrowpoint Line, or SAL, or as a Double Arrowpoint Line, or DAL. Further objects and advantages of this invention will become apparent from a consideration of the drawings and ensuing descriptions thereof. 
    
    
     DRAWING FIGURES 
     FIG. 1 is a side view of a Prior Art embodiment of a generic pointer. 
     FIG. 2A is a perspective view of a preferred implementation embodiment shown in use during the underscoring of a page of reading material. 
     FIG. 2B is a front view of the embodiment of FIG. 2A with a pointer arm along its right side. 
     FIG. 2C is a left side view of FIG. 2A with a cutaway portion revealing slot  22 . 
     FIG. 3A is a front view of an alternate implementation embodiment wherein the control member is a writing instrument, and with cutaway portions revealing the areas of axle pin  39  and storage hole  44 . 
     FIG. 3B is a perspective view of the embodiment of FIG.  3 A. 
     FIG. 4A is a table of diagrammatic operational positions for typical implementation embodiments of the invention. 
     FIG. 4B is a diagrammatic example of flat surface overscoring being done in terms of the method of the invention. 
     FIG. 5A shows a side diagrammatic view of an alternate implementation embodiment wherein a light-beam pointer arm has been movably angled to 90°. 
     FIG. 5B shows a front view of the alternate embodiment of FIG. 5A,  5 C with a portion cutaway revealing the inner structure of the top end of the embodiment. 
     FIG. 5C shows a side diagrammatic view of the embodiment of FIG. 5A wherein a light-beam pointer arm has been movably angled to an upward position. 
     FIG. 5D shows a top sectional view of FIG.  5 B. 
     FIG. 6A shows a right side view of an alternate implementation embodiment of the invention wherein a cylindrical pointer arm is set on an upward angle. 
     FIG. 6B shows a rear view of the device of FIG. 6A with a pointer arm set at 90°, an with a portion cutaway to reveal the area of axle pin  88 . 
     FIG. 7A is a perspective view of a fixed-angle alternate embodiment with a pointer arm set at 90°. 
     FIG. 7B shows a side sectional view of FIG.  7 A. 
    
    
     REFERENCE NUMERALS IN DRAWINGS 
     Note: For clarity in the Specification, all “Double Arrowpoint Lines” have been abbreviated to the acronym DAL; and all “Single Arrowpoint Lines,” with the exception of those in FIG. 4A, have been abbreviated to the acronym SAL. These two acronyms are then used in the text of the specification only to introduce the element numbers, and omitted thereafter. 
     FIG. 1 
       1 =generic pointer 
       2 =generic pointing tip 
       3 =generic control end 
     FIGS. 2A,  2 B,  2 C 
       4 =human right thumb 
       5 =a right index finger 
       6 =a right middle finger 
       7 =a right ring finger 
       8 =text lines 
       9 =linear spaces 
       10 =top wall of slot  22   
       11 =bottom wall of slot  22   
       12 =rear wall of slot  22   
       13 =right wall of slot  22   
       14 =left wall of slot  22   
       15 =a page of reading material 
       21 =control member 
       22 =rectangular slot 
       23 =control member top end 
       25 =pointer arm 
       26 =pointer tip 
       27 =control member bottom end 
       28 =pointer arm rear end 
       29 =storage hole in hidden lines 
       30 =page gripper 
       100 =DAL indicating longitudinal rotational axis line of control member  21 . 
       101 =DAL indicating a left-directed and right-directed arcing swing of pointer arm  25 . 
       102 =DAL indicating the up-directed and down-directed arc of pointer arm  25  with respect to axis  100 . 
       103 =SAL indicating the counterclockwise rotation of control member  21  on axis  100 . 
       104 =SAL indicating the clockwise rotation of control member  21  on axis  100 . 
       105 =DAL indicating the left and right lower wobble of control member  21  on axis  100 . 
       106 =SAL indicating the left and right upper wobble of control member  21  on axis  100 . 
       107 =SAL indicating the lower rearward tilt direction of axis  100  when control member  21  is pivoted forward at the thumb  4  pivot point. 
       108 =SAL line indicating the upper forward tilt direction of axis  100  when control member  21  is pivoted forward at the thumb  4  pivot point. 
       111 =SAL indicating downward arm movement past sequential horizontal text lines in a page of reading material. 
       112 =SAL indicating the direction of pointer tip  26  during a left-to-right swing. 
       113 =SAL indicating the direction of the right-to-left return sweep of pointer tip  26 . 
     FIGS. 3A,  3 B 
       31 =control member 
       33 =control member top end 
       35 =pointer arm 
       36 =pointer tip 
       37 =control member bottom end 
       38 =pointer arm rear end 
       39 =axle pin 
       40 =connective compression clip 
       41 =ballpoint pen clip 
       42 =axle pin mounting hole 
       43 =connective axle pin hole 
       44 =pointer tip storage hole 
       45 =conical page gripper 
       46 =ballpoint pen tip 
       47 =designated control surface 
       300 =DAL indicating control member  31  longitudinal rotational axis. 
     FIG. 4A 
     Box A=reading material being presented in an upright or vertical position with respect to reader Lines of Sight A- 1 , A- 2 , A- 3 ; 
     Box B=reading material being presented in a typical 45° or inclined position with respect to reader Lines of Sight B- 1  and B- 2 ; 
     Box C=reading material being presented in a flat surface position with respect to reader Lines of Sight C- 1 , C- 2 ; 
     Box D=reading material, here shown inclined, which is being viewed from a left Line of Sight D- 1  and a right Line of Sight D- 2 . 
     Boxes  4  through  19 , respectively =diagrammatic illustrations of a pointer arm (with an arrow) connective at different angles with a control member (with a filled circle at the end) 
     FIG. 4B 
       71 =a page of reading material 
       72 =text lines 
       73 =linear spaces 
       74 =diagrammatic control member 
       75 =top end of diagrammatic control member 
       76 =diagrammatic pointer arm 
       77 =diagrammatic pointer tip 
       108 =SAL indicating line of sight from reader&#39;s eyes to  71 . 
       109 =DAL indicating left-right shuttle of pointer arm  76 . 
     FIGS. 5A,  5 B,  5 C 
       51 =control member 
       52 =laser pointer 
       53 =control member top end 
       54 =text lines 
       55 =linear spaces 
       56 =mirror 
       57 =reflective beam tip of SAL  503   
       58 =sheet of reading material 
       59 =connective circuitry 
       60 =conical head of  52   
       61 =levered mirror mounting plate 
       62 =axle hinge 
       63 =left mounting plate friction brace 
       64 =right mounting plate friction brace 
       65 =adjustment slot 
       66 =mounting plate mounting slot 
       67 =top end of plate  61   
       500 =DAL indicating control member  51  longitudinal rotational axis. 
       501 =SAL indicating a laser light beam exit line from light-emitting source LE. 
       502 =SAL indicating a light beam reflective at 90° as a light-beam pointer arm. 
       503 =SAL indicating a light beam upwardly reflective as a light-beam pointer arm. 
       504 =DAL indicating mirror control direction on hinge  62 . 
     PS=portable power source 
     LE=light-emitting device 
     OS=on-off switch 
     FIGS. 6A,  6 B 
       81 =rectangular control member 
       82 =control member mounting cap 
       83 =control member bottom end 
       85 =cylindrical pointer arm 
       86 =pointer tip 
       87 =pointer arm rear end 
       88 =axle pin as part of  87   
       89 =axle pin mounting hole in  82   
       90 =storage hole in hidden lines 
       91 =rectangular page gripper 
       600 =DAL indicating longitudinal rotation axis of  81 . 
     FIGS. 7A,  7 B 
       211 =control member 
       212 =control member top end 
       213 =control member bottom end 
       214 =pointer arm 
       215 =pointer tip 
       216 =pointer arm knobbed rear end 
       217 =90° cylindrical slot 
       218 =120° cylindrical slot 
       220 =pointer arm storage hole 
       700 =DAL indicating longitudinal rotation axis of  11 . 
     DESCRIPTION—FIG.  1 —Prior Art 
     FIG. 1 is a side view of a generic pointer  1  which exemplifies the generic pointer of the prior art, and may be virtually any larger-order, manually graspable object, such as a pen or pencil, with a designated end used as a generic pointing tip  2  and an oppositely designated generic grasping end, or control end  3 . The prior art generic pointer is of a larger order because it is directly grasped with the hand and fingers, as opposed to being indirectly manipulated by other connective means. 
     OPERATION—FIG.  1 —Prior Art 
     When a generic pointer  1  is used for text line underscoring, its generic control end  3  is typically grasped with a thumb, and index and ring fingers of a hand to form a triangular grasping brace at the generic control end  3 . Generic pointer  1  is then enabled to be aimed at a linear space under a text line to underscore the text line. Or, after a slight change in the thumb and finger positions of the aforementioned grasping brace holding the generic pointer, the generic pointer may be used inversely and aimed at a linear space above a text line to overscore the text line to be read. 
     The required left-to-right, and right-to-left zigzag movement required to underscore or overscore the text lines is then achieved either by manipulating the fingers to move the grasping brace holding the generic control end  3 , or by holding the grasping brace tightly and moving the wrist and/or arm back and forth (with the palm either up or down). Any of these manual motions upon the generic control end  3  will effect lateral movement of the generic pointer tip  2  at whatever angle the reader may choose. This angle of the generic pointer  1  is then generally held throughout the reading-underscoring process. 
     In the prior art method of the pointing of a generic pointer  1  for the purpose of underscoring or overscoring text lines, all control over the pointer tip  2  is in the hand and fingers grasping the generic pointer control end  3 . What the improved method will be shown to do is to miniaturize, i.e., significantly reduce the sizing of the generic pointer, and then pass all manual control over the generic pointer to a connective “control member” that will cause the miniaturized generic pointer  1  to become a “movably angleable pointer arm” of the control member. The various ways in which the control member can then be made to move, and so move the miniaturized, movably angled pointer arm and its pointing tip, will be detailed in the specification below. The improved method of the invention thus comprehends the utilization of systematic pointer arm angling and systematic control member manipulation with respect to changing reader lines of sight toward differently angled reading material for the purpose of improved text line underscoring and overscoring. 
     The preceding, limited explanation also helps to explain why the method of the invention has been unobvious to those skilled in the prior art of generic pointer making and utilization toward the specific purpose of underscoring or overscoring text lines to be read. This is because the type of modified, miniaturized pointer utilized in the present invention would be dismissed from consideration by one skilled in the prior art as being too awkward to hold with the hand while performing underscoring or overscoring in the method of the prior art. 
     DESCRIPTION—FIGS.  2 A- 2 C—Preferred Embodiment 
     There are three basic ways in which to structure an implementation device in terms of the method of the invention, each of which employs a geometric arrangement wherein a miniaturized sizing of a generic pointer is made into a transverse “pointer arm” which is further made suitably connective in a movably angleable manner to a portion of a manually rotatable, longitudinal handle called a “control member.” 
     The three ways in which to structure an implementation device in terms of the method of the invention are by having a miniaturized, transverse pointer arm which is movably angleable: a. in a plane bisecting the longitudinal rotational axis of the control member, or; b. in a plane parallel and adjacent to the longitudinal rotational axis of the control member, or; c. in an adjacent plane set at an angle to the longitudinal rotational axis of the control member. In any of these structural contexts, the method of the invention remains the same because a pointing tip of a miniaturized, transverse pointer arm is always used so that only the pointing tip end of a pointer arm is aligned in a straight line of the reader&#39;s line of sight between the target point for underscoring or overscoring and the reader&#39;s eyes during the rotation of a control member on its longitudinal axis. 
     The preferred embodiment of FIGS. 2A-2C utilizes a structural geometry wherein a pointer arm  25  is movably angled through a plane which bisects the longitudinal axis DAL  100  of a control member  21 . The alternate embodiment of FIGS. 3A,  3 B utilizes a structural geometry wherein a movably angleable pointer arm  35  is movably angled in a plane which is parallel and adjacent to a plane which bisects the longitudinal axis DAL  300  of a control member  31 . The alternate embodiment of FIG. 6A-6D, utilizes a structural geometry wherein a movably angle able pointer arm  85  is movably angled in a plane set on an angle to the longitudinal axis DAL  600  of a control member  81 . In FIGS. 2A-2C,  3 A- 3 B,  6 A- 6 D, the respective linear alignments of a target point, a pointing tip, and a reader&#39;s eyes, as the reader&#39;s line of sight, all occur in the method of the invention. 
     FIG. 2A is a perspective view of a preferred implementation embodiment of the invention shown in use during the underscoring of a page of reading material  15 . FIG. 2B is a front view of the embodiment of FIG. 2A with a pointer arm  25  along its right side. FIG. 2C is a left side view of the embodiment of FIG. 2A, with a pointer arm  25  shown in an upwardly angled position, and with a partial cutaway revealing rectangular slot  22 . 
     The preferred embodiment of the present invention shown in FIGS. 2A-2C, consists of: a. a rigid, longitudinal, elongated, cylindrically rounded, control member  21 ; b. a rectangular slot  22 , situated slightly below a top end  23  of control member  21 , and passing partially through control member  21 ; c. a lightweight, elongated, flexibly rigid, attachably detachable, planar, transverse pointer arm  25 . Pointer arm  25  becomes connective with control member  21  when pointer arm rear end  28  is inserted into rectangular slot  22 . Slot  22  allows pointer arm  25  to become movably angleable and have a pivotally frictional coupling with control member  21 . Slot  22  is made longitudinally parallel to the longitudinal rotational axis DAL  100  of control member  21 , thus causing the inserted pointer arm  25  to bisect axis  100 . 
     Control member  21  is typically made of a solid, cylindrical, dowel-type rod, and made of lightweight plastic, metal, or wood or other composite material, and may be either rigid or flexibly rigid. If control member  21  is made of plastic, or other suitable composite material, it may be made either clear or colored. For the purposes of descriptive clarity, control member  21  has been shown somewhat transparent. Control member  21  is typically made in an overall length range of 11.43 cm (4 ½″) to 13.97 mm (5 ½″), but may be made shorter or longer in overall length. Control member  21  is typically made with an outside diameter from 6.35 mm to 15.88 mm (¼″ to ⅝″), but may be of slightly lesser or greater diameter. Control member  21  top end  23  and bottom end  27  are shown having been cut at a right angle, but may be otherwise angled. 
     If one or more portions of the length of control member  21  is altered from being cylindrical, an approximately rounded, or otherwise graspable portion of the length of control member  21 , 5.08 mm to 12.7 mm (2″ to 5″), will remain toward the lower half of control member  21  and be designated as a “control surface” area suitable for grasping and for a 90° twistable, alternating, longitudinal rotation by a human thumb and fingers. The control surface of control member  21  is that portion of the external surface of control member  21  where the primary manual control over the implementation device occurs. For purposes of discussion of FIGS. 2A-2C, the entire length of the rounded outside surface of control member  21  below slot  22  and above bottom end  27  will be designated as being the “control surface of control member  21 .” 
     In the alternate embodiment of FIGS. 3A,  3 B, an alternate control surface  47  is designated by markings to differentiate the recommended control surface area from the rest of the length of alternate control member  31 . A control surface need not be perfectly cylindrical, but may be only approximately rounded and have polygonal sides which are able to be comfortably held. In alternate embodiments, such as the one exemplified in FIGS. 6A,  6 B, the control surface of alternate control member  81  is not rounded, but rectangular, and yet operates in the same general manner as a rounded control surface by being an area of the external surface of a control member suitable for grasping and for a 90° twistable, alternating, longitudinal rotation by a human thumb and fingers, as will be explained. 
     Pointer arm  25  is a rigid, or flexibly rigid, planar member with a typically rounded or knobbed pointing tip  26  as its terminus, and has a mountable rear end  28 . Pointer arm  25  is typically approximately 0.79 mm to 1.59 ({fraction (1/32)}″ to {fraction (1/16)}″) in width, and 3.175 mm to 4.76 mm (⅛″ to {fraction (3/16)}″) in height, and 10.16 cm to 15.1 cm (4″ to 6″) in length, but may be made slightly thinner or thicker, and lower or higher, and shorter or longer. 
     In FIGS. 2B,  2 C the transverse, rectangular slot  22  is molded or cut into control member  21 , and is situated so that its five planar walls, top wall  10 , bottom wall  11 , right side wall  13 , left side wall  14 , and rear wall  12 , are typically, respectively at right angles to their adjacent walls, but may be otherwise angled. Top and bottom walls  10 ,  11  are typically set at a right angle to axis  100 . Slot  22  side walls  13 ,  14  are typically set parallel to axis  100 . 
     Attachably detachable pointer arm  25  is connectively attached to control member  21  by introducing rear end  28  into slot  22  until it is either stopped by back wall  12 , or until pointer arm  25  has been movably angled within slot  22  to a desired angular position between a typical 90° to 150° angle (FIG. 2A, at DAL  102 ) relative to axis  100 . Rear wall  12  of slot  22  is typically equivalent in size to the front opening of slot  22 , and both are typically sized just slightly wider than the width of rear end  28  to provide a frictional engagement of the side walls of pointer rear end  28 . The flat planar sides of pointer arm  25  will then engage side walls  13 ,  14  of slot  22  in a frictional clutching connection which will hold pointer arm  25  in place within the confines of slot  22  and yet also allow for manual inertial movement to a new position where it will then also stay unless acted upon by other forces sufficient to overcome its frictional clutching connection. Side walls  13 ,  14  are given a height sufficient to allow rear end  28  to be rotatably connective with slot  22  between a typical 90° angle and a typical 150° angle relative to axis  100 . 
     Typically, a page gripper  30  is added onto the bottom end  28  of control member  21 . Page gripper  30  is typically a thick, flattened disk or formed into a protruding, rounded shape, and is affixed to the bottom end  27  of control member  21  by adhesive, or other suitable attachment means, and may have equivalent or differing width or diameter dimensions from control member  21 . Page gripper  30  is made of rubber, synthetic rubber, vinyl, or other similar materials, and, as will later be better explained, is used for gripping the lead edges of text pages to be turned. 
     Control member  21  is typically made slightly longer than the length of pointer arm  25  in the length between the bottom of slot  22  and bottom  27  so that when pointer arm  25  is detached from slot  22  by being pulled out of its frictional coupling, storage of pointer arm  25  may be done by insertion into an elongated, longitudinal, storage hole  29  (shown in hidden lines) typically centered on axis  100 . In FIG. 2B, pointer arm  25  is shown adjacent and parallel to control member  21 , with its narrow side forward to show the sizing relationship between pointer arm  25  and storage hole  29 . In FIG. 2C pointer arm  25  is shown wide side forward. Page gripper  30  has a centered, circular hole (shown as an extension of the hidden lines of storage hole  29 ) matching the larger width of, and aligned with pointer arm storage hole  29 . For storage purposes, and to make the implementation device of FIGS. 2A-2C portable, pointer arm  25  is inserted into storage hole  29  rear end  28  first and slid upward into storage hole  29  until pointer arm tip  26  rests against the bottom of page gripper  30 . 
     Typically, text lines are written between 5.08 cm to 15.100 cm (2″ to 6″), as dependent upon the book, magazine, newspaper, or type of computer display monitor on which they are written. In the perspective drawing of FIG. 2A, the invention is shown in use underscoring a set of symbolic, dashed text lines  8 , wherein each dash is representative of one or more words in a typical text line. A set of linear spaces  9  in-between the set of text lines  8  are respectively intended to exemplify the open, intervening spaces between normal reading text, i.e., in-between consecutive, typically parallel text lines  8  With respect to the operational method of the various implementation devices discussed in the specification, the parallel, linear transverse spaces in-between such lines of text wherein a pointer tip of an implementation device is being targeted (pointing) will be referred to as “the linear spaces of the text lines.” 
     Additionally, FIG. 2A contains drawn, diagrammatic references to a human right thumb  4 , a right index finger  5 , a right middle finger  6 , and a right ring finger  7 , all of which will be explained below with respect to the operational method of the invention. And, additionally, FIG. 2A contains drawn references to directional arrowpointed lines, each of which will be explained below with respect to the operational method of the invention. 
     FIG. 4A is a table of diagrammatic operational positions for typical implementation embodiments of the invention such as are shown in FIGS. 2A-2C,  3 A- 3 B,  5 A- 5 C,  6 A- 6 B,  7 A- 7 B, and is utilized to exemplify: a. the common reading material positions; b. the typical lines of sight for a reader toward the common reading material positions; c. the reference use positions best suited for a. and b. above in terms of the operational method of the invention. The table of FIG. 4A will be referentially utilized to explain how a reader may easily position and manipulate an implementation device to his advantage with respect to changing positions of material to be read and changing lines of sight. FIG. 4B is a diagrammatic example of flat surface underscoring being done in terms of the method of the invention, and will also be referentially used in the explanations below. 
     In terms of the Table of FIG. 4A, Box A shows reading material being presented in an upright or vertical position with respect to reader Lines of Sight A- 1 , A- 2 , A- 3 ; Box B shows reading material being presented in a typical 45° or inclined position with respect to reader Lines of Sight B- 1  and B- 2 ; Box C shows reading material being presented in a flat surface position with respect to reader Lines of Sight C- 1 , C- 2 ; Box D exemplifies inclined reading material which is being viewed from a left Line of Sight D- 1  and a right Line of Sight D- 2 . Boxes  4  through  19  respectively show diagrammatic illustrations of a pointer arm (with an arrow) connective at different angles with a control member (with a filled circle at the end). 
     OPERATION—FIGS.  2 A- 2 C—Preferred Embodiment 
     As the explanation of the operation of the main implementation embodiment of FIGS. 2A-2C is given, the symbolic dashed lines exemplifying text lines  8  and the linear, transverse, open spaces in-between such lines, linear spaces  9 , on a page of reading material  15 , will be utilized to indicate the ways in which control member  21  causes pointer arm  25 , and so pointer tip  26 , to sweep across linear spaces  9  and so underscore or overscore such lines of text  8 . The various directional arrow-pointed lines just mentioned will be utilized to indicate the various directions in which the elements of the implementation device are moving at different points in time under varying circumstances of the operation of the implementation device of FIGS. 2A-2C. 
     Basic Grasping Method of Implementation Device 
     In FIG. 2A, the embodiment is representatively shown being held about the control surface of control member  21  by a thumb  4 , an index finger  5 , a middle finger  6 , and a ring finger  7 , of a right hand with a right palm (not shown) facing left with a right arm and hand (not shown) holding the device extended slightly outward from the body, with pointer arm  25  directed away from the reader. The thumb  4  is placed against the control surface of control member  21  with the angled thumb nail facing the reader. The angled undersides of the first sections of fingers  5 ,  6 ,  7  are placed against the opposite side of the control surface of control member  21 , with the respective undersides facing the reader. The thumb and fingers so positioned then grasp the control surface in a slight, but comfortable, squeezing manner. If the reader is left-handed, then the depictions and explanation of the grasp of the control surface of control member  21  would be reversed. In FIG. 2A, pointer arm  25  with pointer tip  26  is shown positionally targeted on an upward angle toward one of the linear spaces  9  of text lines  8 . 
     The stable grasping method shown in FIG. 2A is preferable when the device is to be used in a typically upright and stable operating position. The same stable grasping position will then apply when the device is being used to underscore text lines  8  with the device held in an inverted manner, as will be explained. This stable operating position will apply generally for text lines which are up to a maximum length of approximately 10.16 cm (4″). When text line length is longer than 10.16 cm (4″), a more advanced method of directional control may be used wherein control member  21  is held and manipulated in an altered method. This alternate method is discussed in detail further below. 
     Operation with Shorter Text Lines 
     When the reader has determined a desired reading position, i.e., when the reader has placed the reading material at a desired reading angle, either flat on a surface, or on an inclined angle, typically of 45°, or face-on at 90°, pointer arm  25  is movably angled within slot  22  to a temporary rest position at an upward angle (approximately as shown in FIG. 2A) where it will be held by the frictional coupling connection between the planar sides of pointer arm  25  and the planar sides  13 ,  14  of slot  22  until the angle of pointer arm  25  is again manually, adjustably altered. The reader next grasps the control surface of control member  21  with the thumb and fingers, as described above, and places the device into his unobstructed line of sight toward text lines  8 . The desired positioning of the device is found: a. when the arm and hand currently holding the device has been appropriately extended; b. the upward angle of pointer arm  25  has been appropriately adjusted so that pointer tip  26  is reaching just slightly above the surface material on which text lines  8  appear; c. when top end  23  (or, if being used inverted, bottom end  27 ) of control member  21  is just below, or to the side of the line of sight required for the reader to maintain an unobstructed view of any specific text lines  8  being underscored. 
     When the desired positioning is attained, the reader will determine for himself what further degree of movably angled rotation of pointer arm  25  is necessary to effectively underscore text lines  8  while maintaining an unobstructed line of sight, and while maintaining a sufficient hand distance to keep pointer tip  26  near, but not touching linear spaces  9 . It may be necessary to tip, or “tilt,” control member  21  in order to effect the ideal grasping situation for various reading positions, as will be explained below. 
     The typical angle range for pointer arm  25  for most reading material is 95° to 150° off bottom  27  of control member  21 , although a lesser or greater angle may be more suitable under different reading circumstances. If control member  21  is tilted during use (SAL  107 ,  108 ), that is, if its longitudinal rotational axis  100  is inclined (by reader preference) toward text lines  8 , this will affect the required angular degree of pointer arm  25  to achieve the same overall effect as when control member  21  is held in a straight-up manner. An upward angle of approximately 120° (at  102 ), which is approximately shown in FIGS. 2A,  2 B is typically used to underscore text lines  8  which have their writing surface parallel to the reader&#39;s upper body, whether control member  21  is held straight up or tilted slightly forward. Under most reading circumstances, a pointer arm angle of approximately 120° will usually allow the reader to hold the control surface of control member  21  in a comfortable hand and wrist position when grasping and rotating the device between the thumb and fingers. However, every reader will have his own use preferences, i.e., some readers may prefer to keep control member  21  in a near vertical position with a higher angle for pointer arm  25  during operation, while others prefer to tilt it forward and use a lesser angled pointer arm  25 . 
     When the reader has then further rotated pointer arm  25  within slot  22  until it is fully movably angled to a preferred position, the device may be operated by using the thumb  4  and fingers  5 ,  6 , and  7  in the grasping method described above, to slightly twist the control surface of control member  21  back and forth, in a clockwise rotation (at SAL  104 ), and then in a counterclockwise rotation (at SAL  103 ) 90°, thereby causing control member  21  to rotate accordingly, and cause slot  22  to rotate accordingly. This will then cause pointer arm  25  and its pointing tip  26  to shuttle accordingly (at DAL  101 ), i.e., to rotate back and forth, respectively, to the left and to the right. 
     Once this method of rotational control of the control surface of control member  21  is established, the reader may progress to more accurately targeting pointer tip  26  toward one of the linear spaces  9  beneath one of the text lines  8  that has been chosen to be read. The correct left-to-right movement of pointer tip  26  (at SAL  112 ) relies on a smooth, continuous, clockwise, rolling, twisting motion (at  104 ) of the control surface area of control member  21  between thumb  4  and fingers  5 ,  6 ,  7 . The return sweep of pointer tip  26  (at SAL  113 ), with control member  21  being twisted counterclockwise (at  103 ) right-to-left, is done in a smooth, but more rapid manner to the beginning of one of the next lower linear spaces  9  of one of the next lower text lines  8  to be underscored. 
     Once the basic method of manipulation just described is understood by the reader, the device is then used to continue to underscore text lines  8  by raising pointer arm  26  to a level where it will momentarily rest above the surface of the top line of the material to be read. Pointer tip  26  is then aimed at the left end of the linear space beneath the top text line, and control member  21  is twisted clockwise (at  104 ), as described above, so that pointer tip  26  moves the full distance left-to-right to the end of the first text line. Then control member  21  is twisted counterclockwise (at  103 ) as described, to move pointer tip  26  to the beginning of the next lower text line as pointer tip  26  is simultaneously lowered (at SAL  111 ) into the next lower linear space by slightly lowering the extended arm and hand currently grasping the device. The left-right, zigzag, pointer shuttling motion required to properly underscore each line will then be achieved as the device is continuously twisted back and forth and lowered down text lines  8 . The actual 90° twisting motion required for an approximate 12.7 mm (½″) diameter control surface of control member  21  is approximately 6.35 mm (¼″). 
     To reiterate, several simultaneous forms of motion are occurring when a reader reads text lines  8  while using the present invention as a guiding means. When control member  21  is being twisted in alternate directions (at  103 ,  104 ) to cause pointer arm  25  and so tip  26  to shuttle back and forth (at  101 ), the device is also simultaneously being moved longitudinally down the page of text lines  8  (at  111 ) by natural arm motions. As these transverse and longitudinal underscoring motions are occurring, control member  21  may be held parallel to the typically flat plane of text lines  8 , but is more often used while being tilted forward with respect to the typically flat plane of text lines  8  in order to minimize downward arm movement (at  111 ) by bending the wrist and so tilting control member  21  to keep the zigzag, downward-moving process of shuttling pointer tip  26  (at  112 ,  113 ) consecutively aligned with the sequential order of text lines  8 . The device is also tilted forward to allow the reader to better see over top end  23  of control member  21 . As control member  21  is tilted progressively forward from a vertical position (at  107 ,  108 ), and as the downward arm motion described progresses down the page (at  111 ), the arc that pointer tip  26  sweeps out (at  101 ) progressively changes from an upwardly disposed arc, through a circular arc (when pointer arm  25  passes through a position where it is perpendicular to the planar surface of the text being scanned), through to a downwardly disposed arc as pointer tip  26  tilts progressively forward. The goal of the reader is thus to utilize operational positions for the angle of pointer arm  25 , and for the tilt angle of control member  21  which minimize arc height or depth during the downward moving shuttling process, so as to maximize the flattening of the arc toward a straight line. This will provide the reader with the straightest possible path for pointer tip  26  across a targeted linear space. This may be easily done in the several ways explained below. 
     As the shuttling pointer tip  26  passes in an arc across the linear spaces  9  of text lines  8 , the reader&#39;s eyes “see past” the arc to the implied line between the endpoints of the arc, i.e., its implied chord line. This implied chord line is where the words being read actually appear, and so the reader visually sweeps across the words at the same rate, and typically with the same linear continuity that the sweeping pointer tip  26  presents for the reader. 
     The above applies whether control member  21  is currently being used to one side of text lines  8 , or generally in front of the reader, to allow the reader to better focus on text lines  8  past the sweep of the pointer tip  26 . The twisting and downwardly moving motions of control member  21  will generally remain the same for any reader-preferred reading position and for any angular inclination of text lines  8 . What will change more often is the reader&#39;s acquired preferential method of tilting control member  21  as the reading-underscoring is being done. This preferential tilting method will typically change with the reader&#39;s preferred reading position with respect to the current angular incline of the planar surface of the text lines being read. 
     Operation with Longer Text Lines 
     When text lines are longer than approximately 10.16 cm (4″), or when the reader simply prefers the alternate method, control member  21  is held in a less stable bracing method and allowed to cyclically side-tilt, or “wobble,” during the alternating twisting process. This side-tilting or “wobbling” effect is used as a means of flattening the arc inscribed by pointer tip  26 , and so effect a straighter trace line for pointer tip  26  below or above a longer span of words. To wobble control member  21 , the reader assumes the grasping position described above, and then either drops ring finger  7  away from the grasping brace, or moves the nail side of the first section of ring finger  7  to the thumb side of the grasping brace. Once this alternate form of a grasping brace is assumed, as control member  21  is alternately twisted, it will tend to “wobble,” i.e., to side-tilt to and fro transversely on axis  100  (at DAL  105 ,  106 ), from the pivot point of the less stable grasping brace. When control member  21  is rocked in a wobbling manner (at  105 ,  106 ) from the pivoting area of thumb  4  within the grasping brace of thumb  4  and fingers  5 ,  6 , the rocking motion (at  105 ,  106 ) is typically left and right, with respect to the surface of text lines  8 . 
     When this rocking or wobbling motion of control member  21  is done as the alternating twisting motion of control member  21  is being done, this will cause pointer tip  26  to sweep left to right in a flattened arc which caries through the longer text line length, irrespective of any typical forward tilt of control member  21 . Rocking or wobbling control member  21 , as effected by the push and pull of the index finger  5  and middle finger  6 , and occasionally by a slight twisting motion of the wrist (not shown), is a useful method of flattening the arc of a pointer arm sweep. It is also a relaxed finger movement that may be continued throughout the reading process without fatigue. 
     Basic Operational Positions of the Implementation Device 
     FIG. 4A is a table of diagrammatic operational positions for typical implementation embodiments of the invention such as are seen in FIGS. 2A-2C,  3 A- 3 B,  5 A- 5 C,  6 A- 6 B,  7 A- 7 B. The table of FIG. 4A will be explained to show: a. the common reading material positions; b. the typical lines of sight for a reader toward the common reading material positions; c. the reference use positions best suited for a. and b. above in terms of the method of the invention. The table of FIG. 4A will be referentially utilized to explain how a reader may easily position and manipulate the implementation device to his advantage with respect to changing positions of material to be read and changing lines of sight. FIG. 4B is a diagrammatic example of flat surface underscoring being done in terms of the operational method of the invention, will also be used in these explanations. 
     In terms of the Table of FIG. 4A, Box A shows reading material being presented in an upright or vertical position with respect to reader Lines of Sight A- 1 , A- 2 , A- 3 ; Box B shows reading material being presented in a typical 45° or inclined position with respect to reader Lines of Sight B- 1  and B- 2 ; Box C shows reading material being presented in a flat surface position with respect to reader Lines of Sight C- 1 , C- 2 ; Box D exemplifies reading material, here shown inclined, which is being viewed from a left Line of Sight D- 1  and a right Line of Sight D- 2 . Boxes  4  through  19  respectively show diagrammatic illustrations of a pointer arm (with an arrow) connective at different angles with a control member (with a filled circle at the end). As the explanation continues, each of the Lines of Sight for the respective reading material positions will be explained in terms of the pointer arm-control member diagrams of FIGS. 4A,  4 B, as to the typical preferential angle of operation, all in terms of the previously explained methods of operation of pointer arm  25  and control member  21 . To avoid redundancy in the explanations, it is to be understood without further reference, that if text lines being read are longer than 10.16 cm (4″), side-tilting, i.e., wobbling, as previously explained as an auxiliary method of control over control member  21 , may be introduced by the reader as needed or desired. For the sake of clarity in the following discussion, the hand that controls the implementation device will be referred to as a “steering hand,” and an arm that has the steering hand will be referred to as the “steering arm.” The initial explanation will be done in terms of the upright use of the implementation device, with pointer tip  26  aimed away from the reader&#39;s body, and will be followed by examples of utilization of the device when inverted, with pointer tip  26  aimed away from the reader&#39;s body. 
     Beginning with Box A, when a reader confronts reading material A which is upright or vertical, and his Line of Sight A- 1  is from an upper locale, the reader will typically use Position  9  or  10 , with the steering arm in front of the body, to minimize the probability of top end  23  of control member  21 , or any portion of pointer arm  25  falling into Line of Sight A- 1 . When the reader&#39;s Line of Sight A- 2  is from a face-on, typical sitting locale, he will typically utilize Position  8  and move the steering hand and arm straight down the page (at  111 ), or he will sequentially utilize Positions  8 ,  9 ,  10 , as he tilts his wrist forward, utilizing the tilt change to minimize downward arm motion. When the reader&#39;s Line of Sight A- 3  is from a lower locale he will typically utilize Position  8  or  9  with the steering arm in front to avoid having the device obstruct his view. 
     Referring to Box B, when a reader confronts reading material B which is at 45° or otherwise generally inclined, and his Line of Sight B- 1  is from an upper locale, the reader will typically, sequentially use Position  8 ,  9 ,  10 ,  11 , as he progressively moves down the page in a progressively tilting manner with his steering arm&#39;s elbow (not shown) crooked to the side of reading material B and closing its angle as the reader&#39;s steering hand moves progressively down the page. When the reader&#39;s Line of Sight B- 2  is from a face-on, typical sitting locale, the reader will typically utilize Positions  9  and  10  as he progressively moves down the page in a tilting manner with his steering arm&#39;s elbow (not shown) crooked to the side of reading material B and closing its angle as the reader&#39;s steering hand moves progressively down the page. 
     Referring to Box C, when a reader confronts reading material C which is flat, or inclined at less than 45°, and his Line of Sight  1  is from an upper locale, the reader will typically use Position  10 , and progressively move down the page with his steering arm&#39;s elbow (not shown) crooked to the side of reading material C and closing its angle as the reader&#39;s steering hand moves progressively down the page. When the reader&#39;s Line of Sight C- 2  is from a lower, typical sitting locale, the reader will also typically utilize Position  11 , and progressively move down the page with his steering arm&#39;s elbow (not shown) crooked to the side of reading material C and closing its angle as the reader&#39;s steering hand moves progressively down the page. 
     Referring to Box D, when a reader confronts reading material D, irrespective of its inclination angle, and reads the text lines on an angle and his Line of Sight D- 1  is from the left side, the right steering hand is used in any of the Positions  4  through  111 , or if control member  21  is being used inverted, then in any of the Positions  12  through  19 , from the right side of the reading material. Any one of the shown Positions  4  through  11  will allow the reader to progressively move vertically down the page with his steering hand and arm to the right of the page and eliminate all view obstruction. A reverse interpretation applies when the reader&#39;s Line of Sight D- 2  is from the right side of reading material D, i.e., the left hand becomes the steering hand and the left arm becomes the steering arm moving down the left side of the page. 
     Often it is preferable to use the device for underscoring while it is inverted with the pointer tip  26  faced away from the reader&#39;s body. This helps to eliminate view obstruction (by the device) in a Line of Sight when reading material is presented in such a way relative to the reader&#39;s locale that the device is in fact obstructive to a clear view of the text. For example, referring to reading material A: Lines of Sight A- 1 , A- 2 , A- 3 , are easily underscored when the device is in inverted Position  18  or  19 . Similarly, with respect to reading material B: Lines of Sight B- 1 , B- 2 , are easily underscored using any of the inverted Positions  17 ,  18  or  19 . And similarly, with respect to material C: Lines of Sight C- 1 , C- 2 , are easily underscored using any of the Positions  17 ,  18 , or  19 . However, to effectively read a larger-order piece of reading material C, such as a legal brief, which is lying in a flat position directly in front of the reader, as on a table, as exemplified in the diagrammatic illustration of FIG. 4B, an overscoring method of use is often more preferable to the direct forward-pointing inversion of the device. And again, to overscore text, pointer tip  26  is utilized to trace through the linear spaces  9  above text lines  8  while sequentially reading the respective text lines below the linear space tracing. 
     In FIG. 4B, a reader&#39;s Line of Sight SAL  108  is directly before and focused at a page of reading material  71  containing a set of text lines  72  and a set of linear spaces  73 . A control member  74  is grasped in the described manner, but is positioned so that it is horizontal and approximately parallel to the surface of a larger piece of reading material  71 , with a top end  75  of control member  74  pointed toward the reader&#39;s body. A pointer arm  76  will then be pointing downward and perpendicular to text lines  72  and linear spaces  73 . A steering elbow and arm (not shown) are then held to the side and moved from the top of text lines  72  down the page toward Line of Sight  108  as pointer arm  76  is shuttled left and right (DAL  109 ) with a shuttling pointer tip  77  pointing directly down toward one of the linear spaces  73  above one of the text lines  72  to complete the overscoring process of reading material  71 . 
     Whether a reader prefers to use an implementation device upright or inverted, to underscore or overscore, the same general operational methodology as described above will apply. Or again, as the reader considers his changing preferences for line of sight, inclination of reading material, pointer arm angle, and use of control member tilt and wobble methods, he will determine for himself when it is desirable to utilize the various operational factors just discussed. 
     Referring again to the embodiment of FIG. 2A, when the embodiment (or any other embodiment done in terms of the method of the present invention) is inverted, clockwise and counterclockwise rotations (at  104 ,  103 ) become reversed during the shuttling process of pointer arm  25  (at  101 ), and the held tilt angle of the inverted control member (at  107 ,  108 ) becomes steep toward the horizontal position just described in FIG.  4 B. In various reading instances, it is more comfortable, or preferable to the reader, to invert the device using any of the Positions  12  through  19 , or to overscore text lines using any of the Positions  4  through  19  which is appropriate for the reading situation. 
     After using the device for a time the reader will realize that his peripheral vision has increased as he has learned how to take in phrases at a glance. An additional method to rapid reading using peripheral vision that takes in phrases at a glance, is to place pointer arm  25  in a desired angular position so that pointer arm  25  maybe used to vertically slide down a page of text lines while pointer arm  25  is lying horizontally across the text lines. This method may be used for fast scans of a page of reading material to gain a quick perspective on the nature of the material to be read. This method also works well when reading less wide columns of reading material such as are found in newspapers and magazines. Another alternative use of the device is to place control member  21  in an overscoring position and then utilize the extended pointer arm to symbolically divide the text lines  8  (as they are divided by  111  in FIG. 2A) so that the reader&#39;s eyes may target left and then right sides of the page and read the text line segments in single glances. 
     Page gripper  30  is utilized by placing the bottom of the gripper against the approximate top right edge of a right page of written material, such as a book or magazine, which is intended to be turned toward the left. Control member  21  is then pressed downward so that page gripper  30  frictionally engages the surface material of the page. Simultaneously, control member  21  is pushed to the left along with the now frictionally-connective right page until the right page folds and flips over to its opposite side. Alternately, on less foldable reading material, page gripper  30  will only be used to lift the edge of the page away from its underlying page and then lifted, flipped and pushed into place by a grasping finger of the non-steering hand and pushed into place on the left side of the dividing binder means, and then held down on the left side of the book, magazine, etc. Alternately, page gripper  30  may be an attachably detachable, thimble-like rubber boot for a finger, having an attachable detachable connection with control member  21 , the purpose of which is to provide friction between a finger&#39;s inertial force and the page to be gripped and moved. Page gripper  30  may also be used in conjunction with a suitable rigid bar, such as a plastic ruler or other flat piece of any material (not shown), able to be slid downward across the surface of an open book. Such a flat bar would be utilized to exert pressure against the binding means of a book to better flatten the pages of reading material, and would be controlled by the non-steering hand when using an implementation device in the method just described. 
     Operation Conclusions 
     Reader-preferred use positions of an implementation device of the method of the invention are initially determined by the reader&#39;s locale and line of sight relative to the current angle of the text lines to be read in the reading material. Generally, the reader will prefer to utilize a position which is both the most comfortable and least obstructive to his line of sight viewing. The choice of a preferred position may also be determined by the reader&#39;s ability to utilize tilt, wobble, and arm-elbow angling methods (with the arm and elbow extended out to the side) which will minimize downward arm movements during operation. Ideally, in terms of the method of the present invention, the reader using the implementation device will quickly learn to “see past” a shuttling pointer tip and read the lines of text in a continuous, shuttling manner of eye sweeps, and so increase his reading and comprehension rate accordingly. 
     From the preceding, it is clear that the text underscoring and overscoring device of the invention provides a highly reliable, lightweight, yet economical device that can be used by almost any reader. Whereas the above description contains many specificities, these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of the invention, but rather as an exemplification of one preferred embodiment thereof. Many other alternate variations of the elements of an implementation device of the method of the present invention are possible, as exemplified below. 
     DESCRIPTION—FIGS.  3 A,  3 B—Alternate Embodiment 
     FIG. 3A is a front view of an alternate implementation embodiment of the invention wherein the control member is a handwriting instrument, and more specifically, wherein a control member  31  is a typical form of ballpoint pen. FIG. 3A has two cutaway portion views which will be explained below. FIG. 3B is a perspective view of the alternate implementation embodiment of FIG.  3 A. FIGS. 3A,  3 B are additionally intended to exemplify an implementation device wherein a pointer arm  35  with a pointer tip  36  is made to operate within a plane adjacent and parallel to a longitudinal rotational axis DAL  300  of a control member  31 . 
     Often it is desirable for a reader to take notes, highlight material, etc., while reading text lines. Alternately, virtually any implementation embodiment of the method of the present invention may be manufactured to suit the dual purpose of being both a text underscoring or overscoring device and also a handwriting instrument. Alternate embodiments of the invention may be utilized wherein control member  31  has been manufactured into a standard form of handwriting instrument such as various types of ballpoint pens, or other pens, pencils, or highlighters, etc., of almost any typical type, style or design. FIGS. 3A,  3 B exemplify this dual-purposed device in use with a typical ballpoint pen body being utilized as control member  31 . 
     Typically, such a combined device as shown in FIGS. 3A,  3 B will have opposing or separated, downwardly disposed, compression clips which are set at 90° away from each other. One compression clip will be similar to a typical ballpoint pen clip  4  which is utilized to clip the writing instrument to a pocket or elsewhere. The other clip, a pointer arm connective clip  40 , will act as a component of a connective mechanism between pointer arm  35  and control member  31 , and will also act as a component of a storage mechanism for pointer arm  35 , as will be explained. As shown in FIGS. 3A,  3 B, the two downwardly disposed compression clips  40 ,  41  are set at 90° away from each other to facilitate pocket clipping, and to facilitate the utilization of control member  31  as a writing instrument, as will be explained. 
     In FIG. 3A, control member  31  is shown as a typical type of plastic or metal, spring-operated, retractable, ballpoint pen, having a typical type of a retractable push-button  32  placed within a top end  33  of a ballpoint pen body of control member  31 , with button  32  pushed to an inward position so that a ballpoint tip  46  is extended. A bottom end  37  of control member  31  is just above the ballpoint pen&#39;s conical endpiece, which endpiece has been replaced by an alternate form of a conical page gripper  45 . Control member  31  has been additionally provided with a second, downwardly disposed, pointer arm compression clip  40 , 90° away from its ballpoint pen clip  41 . Compression clip  40  houses an axle pin  39  (shown in the top cutaway portion of FIG.  3 A). Axle pin  39  is molded into the underside of compression clip  40  and passes through a suitably sized hole  42  (filled by axle pin  39 ) near the rear end  38  of pointer arm  35 . Pointer arm  35  can then become frictionally rotatably connective with control member  31  on the rotational axis of axle pin  39  (as shown in FIG. 3B) and utilize the spring compression of compression clip  40  against the planar sides of pointer arm  35  to maintain a reader-set angle of use. 
     Pointer arm  35  is typically made of plastic or metal, or other suitable materials. Referring to FIG. 3A, when not in use, pointer arm  35  is rotated parallel to control member  31  and placed into a storage position by sliding a knobbed pointer tip  36  into a storage hole  44  (shown in the lower cutaway portion of FIG. 3A) which has been molded or bored into the material surface of control member  31 . Compression clip  40  and storage hole  44  will then secure pointer arm  35  for storage purposes. Knobbed pointer tip  36  is the terminus of pointer arm  35 , and is either molded as a metal into the material of pointer arm  35 , or, if separately made, is affixed to the end of pointer arm  35  by adhesives or other suitable connective methods. Knobbed pointer tip  36  is additionally a small magnet used for picking up paper clips and other small metal items, making pointer arm  35  a multipurposed device in the same sense that control member  21  is a multipurposed device being both a control member and a writing instrument. 
     Connective compression clip  40  typically is made of plastic, metal, or other suitable materials in the form of an inverted L, with a typically planar underside to facilitate a frictional coupling between itself, a planar side of pointer arm  35 , and the other planar side of arm  35  with the outside surface material of control member  31 . Alternately, compression clip  40  may be made in any other material configuration suitable to receive pointer arm  35  at a pivotally connective axle point, and sufficiently compress rear end area  38  of pointer arm  35  into positions for both use and storage. 
     Approximate to its rear end  38 , pointer arm  35  typically has an approximately 0.794 mm ({fraction (1/32)}″) diameter axle pin mounting hole  42  (filled by connective axle pin  39 ). When angled out of storage, pointer arm rear end  38  will typically protrude 3.175 mm (⅛″) or more out from compression clip  40 , so that when pointer arm  35  is rotated in use it will have a fuller portion of material enduring compressional stability from compression clip  40  and will thus remain more stably extended and incur a better frictional coupling advantage for temporary positioning. 
     Connective compressional clip  40  is typically approximately 5.08 cm (2″) in length, 6.35 mm (¼″) wide, and 5.1 mm (⅕″) thick where it is downwardly disposed. Connective axle pin hole  43  within control member  31  is typically approximately 0.794 mm ({fraction (1/32)}″), and placed approximately in the upper middle portion of the clip. Axle pin  39  is made of plastic or metal and is typically sized to be slightly smaller than the inside diameter of hole  42  within pointer arm  35 , and is sufficiently long to reach through hole  42  and thence pass into hole  43 . If hole  43  is not present, then axle pin  39  is sized to only touch against the surface material of control member  31 . 
     If the embodiment is generally made of a formable material such as plastic, top end  33  of control member  31  will be formed with clip  40 , and, typically, connective axle pin  39  will be formed into the inside, planar wall of clip  40  as a protrusion held in place by spring compression against, or will be additionally inserted into, the material surface of control member  31 , as just described. Alternately, connective compressional clip  40  may be made as an addition onto a side of control member  31  by suitable connection methods such as pressure insertion, adhesive or a rivet. 
     In the method of the invention, geometric structural variations could be made wherein pointer arm  35  operates from a hinged top for control member  31  and is directly operative within the plane bisecting axis  300 , or could be alternately structured so that compression clip  40  connects pointer arm  35  in a plane which is set on an angle with respect to axis  300 . The operational method of the invention would apply in any and all of these structural contexts as aforementioned, since the use of the method applies whenever a pointer tip remains in the reader&#39;s line of sight while being targeted toward a portion of a linear space beneath or above a text line. 
     A conical page gripper  45  has been provided for the embodiment of FIGS. 3A,  3 B in the form of a typical standard conical enclosure which houses a ballpoint pen tip  46 . Conical page gripper  45  is made of the same material and operates in the same way as page gripper  30  of FIGS. 2A-2C, and may be used accordingly when ballpoint tip  46  is retracted, as shown in FIG.  3 B. 
     OPERATION—FIGS.  3 A,  3 B—Alternate Embodiment 
     The alternate embodiment of FIGS. 3A,  3 B carries the essence of the invention in that the operational methods and results are the same as stated in the operation of the preferred embodiment of FIGS. 2A-2C, once prepared for use. To prepare for use, pointer arm  35 , if in a storage position, is rotated on axle pin  39  out of its pointer tip storage hole  44 , and momentarily rotated outward to 90° to prepare pointer arm  35  for further possible rotation to a more preferred temporary rest position angle where it will be held (until again adjustably altered) by the spring compression of compressive clip  40 . Once pointer arm  35  has been movably angled to a desired angle, control member  31  is grasped in the same way as the preferred embodiment of FIGS. 2A-2C. The same movably angleable, operational of pointer arm  35  may be performed, and the same movably rotational operation of control member  31  may be performed, irrespective of the angular orientation of pointer arm  35 , or of the changing angular orientations (forward or side tilt) of control member  31  when it is being made twistably movable. 
     In order to shift from a reading position to a writing position utilizing the embodiment of FIGS. 3A,  3 B, the reader makes a finger-pivoting manipulation of the previously described control member grasping brace to a typical, triangulated writing brace. A typical, triangulated writing brace is one wherein a top side of the first section of the middle finger is held as a support base under the pen body, and the thumb and index finger are used at opposite grasping brace angles to complete a triangular writing grip. When the writing process is completed, the triangulated writing brace is manipulated back to the described control member grasping brace. When the device is used as a writing instrument while pointer arm  35  is in a storage position, if the reader/writer rotates pointer arm  35  to a position between his thumb and index finger, pointer arm  35  will not interfere with the triangulated writing brace. 
     DESCRIPTION—FIGS.  5 A,  5 B,  5 C—Alternate Embodiment 
     FIGS. 5A-5D exemplify an alternate embodiment of a movably angled pointer arm embodiment of the invention wherein a pointer arm is in the alternate embodiment of a coherent light beam. FIGS. 5A,  5 C show side views of a diagrammatic view of the alternate device wherein a laser pointer  52  with a conical head  60  has been inserted within a hollow structure of a control member  51 . FIG. 5A also shows a longitudinal coherent light beam SAL  501  emanating from a light-emitting source within laser pointer  52 , represented in FIG. 5A by a boxed-in “LE,” which has been reflected by a movably angled (at SAL  504 ), flat, narrow reflective surface, mirror  56 , which reflects a vertical angle of incidence of coherent light beam  501  from within a longitudinal rotational axis DAL  500  of control member  51  to a 90° angle of reflection SAL  502 . The reflected beam  502  then becomes equivalent to a light-beam pointer arm  502 . FIG. 5C shows mirror  56  having been movably angled upward so that the new angle of reflection of incident beam  501  produces another light-beam pointer arm SAL  503 . Both reflective light-beam pointer arms  502 ,  503  then travel outward within a plane bisecting control member  51  axis  500 . In FIG. 5C, reflective beam tip  57  is shown striking a sheet of reading material  58  containing a set of text lines  54  and a set of intervening linear spaces  55 . FIG. 5B shows a front view of FIGS. 5A,  5 C with a cutaway view of the of a top end  53  of control member  51  as it would appear with light beam  501  either turned off or unreflected by mirror  56 . FIG. 5D shows a sectional top view of FIG. 5B revealing the quarter-round left and right mounting plate friction braces  63 ,  64  positioned above H- shaped axle hinge  62  in control member  51 . In FIGS. 5B,  5 D, a levered mirror mounting plate  61  with narrow mirror  56  is in a fully vertical position, which allows beam  501  to pass through adjustment slot  65  unreflected. 
     Control member  51  is a thin-walled, hollow tube made of plastic, metal, or other suitable material, and is of sufficient size to accommodate laser pointer  52  by frictional insertion and coupling, and allow the remaining portion of laser pointer  52  with a circuit control on-off button switch, represented in FIGS. 5A,  5 B by a boxed-in “OS,” to remain outside of the hollow tube of control member  51 . Laser pointer  52  is a typical 7.62 mm (3″) long laser pointer with a 12.7 mm (½″) diameter of the type now commonly used for instructional pointing to a wall-mounted informational display, such as a blackboard. Such a typical laser pointer  52  has within its confines: a standard portable power source, represented in FIG. 5A by a boxed-in “PS,” in the form of batteries; a suitable light-beam emitter LE, and a suitable, externally accessible, button on-off switch OS; and, connective circuitry  59 , in the form of suitably connective wires or a suitable circuit board, indicated in FIG. 5A by two arrowpointed lines interconnecting the circuit components LE, PS and OS. Laser pointer  52  is either housed in control member  51 , as previously explained, or is manufactured into control member  51 . H-shaped axle hinge  62  is manufactured into, or otherwise suitably fastened to the inside wall of the hollow tube of control member  51 , and is made of plastic or other suitable materials. The lower end of plate  61  has a suitably sized, horizontal, mounting plate mounting slot  66  (obscured by  62 ) which snaps onto an axle pin portion of H-shaped axle hinge  62 , and thereby become sandwiched within and pivotably, frictionally mounted within the left and right braces  63 ,  64 . Left and right braces  63 ,  64 , are made of plastic or other suitable materials, and manufactured into the hollow tube of control member  51 , or otherwise suitably fastened to the inside wall of control member  51 . Narrow mirror  56  is typically adhesively connected, or otherwise suitably connected onto plate  61 , which is also made of plastic or other suitable materials. Narrow mirror  56  is made approximately 3.175 mm (⅛″) wide and 2.54 mm (1″) in height, but may be made in other suitable dimensions. 
     OPERATION—FIGS.  5 A,  5 B,  5 C—Alternate Embodiment 
     Referring to FIG. 5A, when laser pointer  52  is turned on by on-off switch OS, the activated current passes through connective circuitry  59  from power source PS to light-beam emitter LE which then emits longitudinal light beam  501  which travels upward and strikes narrow mirror  56  on plate  61 . Reflective light beam  502  then travels outward as light-beam pointer arm  502  at a reflective angle of 90°, which has been preset by adjustment of mirror  56  on plate  61  (at  504 ) within adjustment slot  65 . Referring to FIG. 5C, when plate  61  has been rotated upward a sufficient distance by pushing or pulling on its exposed top end  67  (at  504 ), reflective light-beam pointer arm  503  becomes angled upward as well. Referring to FIGS. 5B,  5 D, plate  61  incurs friction for temporary positioning from the approximately quarter-round, left and right braces  63 ,  64 , which rub against the sandwiched outside walls of plate  61  of mirror  56  as it is movably angled through adjustment slot  65  (at  504 ). 
     In the alternate embodiment of FIGS. 5A-5D, once power source PS of laser pointer  52  has been activated by on-off button switch OS within connective circuitry  59 , activated light-beam emitter LE issues coherent incident light beam  501 . Light beam  501  then strikes mirror  56  and becomes the equivalent reflective light-beam pointer arm, as exemplified by reflective beams  502 ,  503 . When mirror  56  has been suitably movably angled to a desired reflective angle for a light-beam pointer arm, as exemplified by  502  or  503 , control member  51  is grasped in the same way, and the operational results are the same, as those previously stated in the operation of the preferred embodiment of FIGS. 2A-2C as regards the use of the device as a text line underscoring or overscoring method. The same movably angleable, operation of light-beam pointer arms as exemplified by  502 ,  503  occurs, and the same movably rotational operation of control member  51  occurs, irrespective of the mirrored angular orientation of the light-beam pointer arm, and irrespective of the angular orientation (forward and side tilt) of control member  51  when it is being made twistably movable. 
     Alternately, a movably angled, light-beam pointer arm embodiment of the invention could be done in various alternate embodiments of a coherent or regular light beam. Such a regular light beam may be in the form of any focused lighting means, such as an incandescent bulb with an appropriate lens focusing means made of glass, plastic, or other composites. 
     Alternately, rather than utilizing a movably angled mirror, another reflective method such as polished metal surface on a flexible arm may be used to set an appropriate angle for a light-beam pointer arm. And alternately, such a light-beam pointer arm could be an angularly adjustable, flexible fiber optic pointer arm. These latter alternate embodiments would further require: an electric power source, such as a battery; an electric current conduction and connective method, such as a circuit board or wires; an electric switching method, such as an on-off push button or slide switch; an electric light-beam emitting device, such as an incandescent bulb or LED; and, if necessary, a focusing method, such as a lens system of glass or plastic for focusing purposes, so that a produced focused light beam could be produced and utilized as a pointer arm for the invention; and, if necessary, a light-mirroring means, such as a polished metal surface suitably connectively mounted on a flexible tube. 
     DESCRIPTION—FIGS.  6 A,  6 B—Alternate Embodiment 
     In various alternate embodiments of the method of the invention, a pointer arm may be mounted on an angle with respect to a control member longitudinal rotational axis, either directly within, or immediately connective with a control member, or in the context of a suitably connective, extended member projecting from a control member. FIG. 6A shows a right side view of an alternate implementation embodiment of the invention wherein a pointer arm  85  is mounted on an angle with respect to a control member  81  longitudinal rotation axis DAL  600 . FIG. 6B shows a rear view of the device of FIG. 6A with a partial cutaway portion revealing the pivotal connections of pointer arm  85  with control member  81 . 
     In FIGS. 6A,  6 B, a rectangular control member  81  is shown with a conical shaped mounting cap  82 . Referring to FIG. 6B, axle pin  88  is a typically a formed part of an attachably detachable, cylindrical, pointer arm  85 , and is placed at the rear end  87  of pointer arm  85 . Cylindrical axle pin  88  has been inserted into a cylindrical, angled mounting hole  89  within a mounting cap  82 . This then suitably connects pointer arm  85  in a movably angleable, frictional coupling with control member mounting cap  82 . Pointer arm  85  can then become frictionally rotatably connective with control member  81  on the rotational axis of axle pin  88 , as shown in FIG.  6 A. Pointer arm  85  can then also utilize the frictional coupling of axle pin  88  with angled mounting hole  89  to maintain any angle to which pointer arm  85  is temporarily set with respect to axis  600 . 
     Control member  81  may be made as one formed piece with mounting cap  82 , or be made separate and be connective by adhesives, pressure insertion, or other suitable connective means, and be made of wood, plastic or any other suitable material. Angled, cylindrical mounting hole  89  may be formed or bored into the material of mounting cap  82 . Pointer arm  85  may be made as one formed piece with protruding cylindrical axle pin  88 , or be made separately and be made connective with axle pin  88  by adhesives, pressure insertion, or other suitable connective means, and be made of wood, plastic or any other suitable material. The dimensions of the elements of the alternate embodiment of FIGS. 6A,  6 B, would be consistent with those given for the preferred embodiment of FIGS. 2A-2C, and with the alternate embodiment of FIGS. 3A,  3 B, with the following exceptions. The rectangular sides of FIGS. 6A,  6 B are made in various sizing ratios, with a typical maximum width of 6.35 mm (¼″) and depth of 11.11 mm ({fraction (7/16)}″). And typically, the grasping or control surface area of the narrow sides of control member  81  will have either friction inducing surface cuts, or a friction-inducing covering, such as an adhesive or rubber banding, to keep the thumb and fingers from slipping from control member  81  when the device is in use. 
     A cylindrical storage hole  90  for pointer arm  85 , shown in hidden lines, is either formed into the material of, or otherwise bored into the material of control member  81 , and is of sufficient diameter to accommodate the length of pointer arm  85  up to its axle pin  88 . 
     OPERATION—FIGS.  6 A,  6 B—Alternate Embodiment 
     Unlike the previously described embodiments of FIGS. 2A-2C,  3 A- 3 B,  5 A- 5 D, the alternate embodiment of FIGS. 6A,  6 B does not utilize an approximately rounded control surface for its control member  81 . The operation of the embodiment of FIGS. 6A,  6 B is identical to those with more rounded control surfaces, with the exception that the operational process of twisting the control member in alternating directions is done by twisting the rectangular surfaces using the narrow sides of a control member  81 , shown in FIG. 6B, to lever the wider sides, shown in FIG.  6 A. This is done by placing the thumb on the rear side of control member  81  and placing the fingers on the opposite narrow side of control member  81 , and moving the thumb and fingers slightly in alternating directions to effect a 90° rotational twist in opposing directions. This then turns connective axle pin  88  which is further connective with pointer arm rear end  87 , and so turns pointer arm  85 , and so a pointer tip  86  in a shuttling manner. The fact that pointer arm  85  is mounted on a slight angle with respect to axis  600  of control member  81  does not affect the operation of the implementation device of FIGS. 6A,  6 B. When pointer arm  85  has been suitably movably angled to a desired pointing angle, control member  81  is grasped in essentially the same way, and the operational results are the same, as those previously stated in the operation of the preferred embodiment of FIGS. 2A-2C as regards the use of the device as a text line underscoring or overscoring method. The same movably angleable, operational use of pointer arm  85  occurs, and the same movably rotational operation of control member  81  occurs, irrespective of the angular orientation of pointer arm  85 , and irrespective of the angular orientation of control member  81  when it is being made twistably movable. 
     When pointer arm  85  is not in use, it may be placed into storage hole  90  by being inserted, pointer tip  86  first, and pushed into storage hole  90  until rear end  87  with axle pin  88  come to rest against a bottom end  83  of control member  81 . A rectangular page gripper  91  has been provided for the embodiment of FIGS. 6A,  6 B below bottom end  83 . Page gripper  91  has a centered aperture, shown as an extension of the hidden lines of storage hole  90 , of sufficient size to snugly accommodate the diameter pointer arm  85 . Page gripper  91  is made of the same material and operates in the same way as page gripper  30  of FIGS. 2A-2C, and may be used accordingly when pointer arm  85  is not within storage hole  90 . 
     DESCRIPTION—FIGS.  7 A,  7 B—Alternate Embodiment 
     As shown in FIGS. 7A,  7 B, in an alternate embodiment of the method of the invention, a pointer arm  214  may be mounted on a fixed angle with respect to a control member  211  longitudinal rotational axis DAL  700 . FIG. 7A is a perspective view of a fixed-angle alternate embodiment with pointer arm  214  set at 90°. FIG. 7B shows a left side sectional view of FIG.  7 A. FIGS. 7A,  7 B exemplify an alternate embodiment of an attachably detachable, fixed-angle, movably angled, cylindrical pointer arm  214 . In FIGS. 7A,  7 B pointer arm  214  has a non-rounded pointer arm tip end  215 , and a knobbed rear end  216 . Control member  211  consists of two separate, translucent, cylindrical members made of plastic or other suitable materials which have been inserted one ( 212 ) into the other ( 213 ). A narrow, cylindrical, control member top end  212  is shown in section in FIG. 7B as being inserted into, a wider, cylindrical, control member bottom end  213 , and is typically affixed therein by friction or adhesives. 
     Cylindrical pointer arm  214  is made of plastic or other suitable materials, and is movably angled on control member top end  212  by having pointer arm tip  215  inserted into and through either of two connective, cylindrical slot receptacles  217 ,  218 , until knobbed pointer arm rear end  216  reaches the outside surface of top end  212 . Cylindrical slots  217 ,  218  are of a suitable size to frictionally accommodate and couple with the outside diameter of cylindrical pointer arm  214 . Slots  217 ,  218  have been drilled, molded or otherwise manufactured into the material of control member top end  212 . Slot  217  is set at 90° and slot  218  is set at approximately 140°. Slots  217 ,  218  allow inserted pointer arm  214  to be movably angled and held in a fixed-angled position. When not in use, attachably detachable pointer arm  214  is stored by being inserted into cylindrical storage hole  220  until its knobbed rear end  216  comes to rest on the top end  212  of control member  11 , as also shown by phantom lines in the sectional drawing FIG.  7 B. Additionally, a plurality of similar but differently angled slots could be made available for various fixed angles of deployment for pointer arm  214 . 
     OPERATION—FIGS.  7 A,  7 B—Alternate Embodiment 
     In the alternate embodiment of FIG. 7, the operational methods and results are the same as stated in the operation of the preferred embodiment of FIGS. 2A-2C as regards the use of the device as a text line underscoring or overscoring method. The same movably angleable, operation of fixed-angle pointer arm  214  occurs, and the same movably rotational operation of control member  211  occurs, irrespective of the fixed-angle orientation of pointer arm  214 , or of the angular orientation of control member  211  (forward and side tilt) when it is being made twistably movable. 
     Alternately, a fixed-angle embodiment of the invention may be made wherein a suitably connective method is utilized, such as fixed-angle clasps or clips, between a pointer arm rear end and a control member approximate top end, so that the connective method is either directly within, or immediately connective with a control member, or in the context of a further suitably connective, extended member projecting from a control member. Alternately, the angled slots  217 ,  218  of FIGS. 7A,  7 B could be replaced in other alternate embodiments by an angled clasping or grasping method suitable for connection with a rear end of a pointer arm. For example, a fixed-angle embodiment of the implementation device of the method could have provided angled slotted receptacles similar to slot  22  in FIGS. 2A-2C, or have provided angled protrusions on control member  211  for a hollow pointer arm end to fit upon, such as pegs or other forms of material protrusions. Alternately, other means of pointer arm configurations could be made suitably connective to a control member by hook and loop, or magnetic attachment, or side clasps, and the like. 
     CONCLUSIONS, RAMIFICATIONS AND SCOPE 
     There are many possible alternate combinations of two elongated members, one serving as a graspable, twistable control member and the other as a miniaturized pointer arm, which are made suitably movably angleably connective so as to be enabled to operate in terms of the method of the invention. Similarly, there could be many different storage methods for the respective pointer arms of such embodiments of the implementation device. Many alternate embodiments of the implementation device being utilized as a multiply purposed instrument are also possible. For example, the pointer arm of FIGS.  3 A, 3 B, if suitably manufactured, rather than being a magnetized pick-up tool, could be utilized as a portable, reusable stirrer for fluids. Similarly, control member  31 , rather than being a writing instrument as shown, could, if suitably manufactured, be a foldable knife, or a standard flashlight, or virtually any other instrumentation that would maintain the requirements of the method wherein a graspable control surface is provided somewhere on the length of a control member to allow it to be operated in terms of the previously explained methods of the preferred embodiment of FIGS. 2A-2C and the other shown alternate embodiments. Many dual or multiple-function design formats utilizing combinations of pointer arms with common use objects could be made to produce two angularly connected pieces that fall within the operational dimensions and parameters of the implementation device of the invention, and which would operate in the same given connective and operational ways to implement the method of the invention. Additionally, a pointer arm may be made curved, or telescopic, or foldable, or otherwise collapsible and extendible. Similarly, a control members could be made telescopic, or foldable, or otherwise collapsible and extendible, and additionally, could be made in the form of a small graspable and twistable sphere or other operable configurational contour. 
     At the simplest level, a single member able to be appropriately flexed to allow one end to serve as a graspable, twistable control member, and the other end to serve as a miniaturized, movably angleable pointer arm, could serve to implement the method of the invention. At the next simplest level, a control member could have fixed-angle slots, bore holes, clasps, or other connective, grasping methods. And, since a pointer arm implementing the method of the invention will always be miniaturized and lightweight, and have an operational torque which is minimal, other fixed-angle connective methods such as opposing magnets, or hook and loop connectors, each respectively suitable for connection with the end of an appropriately designed pointer arm could be done. In an intermediately complex embodiment, a variety of suitable connective methods to effect a movably angleable, miniaturized pointer arm in connection with a graspable, twistable control member could be done, i.e., connection methods such as axle pins, friction slots, clasps, clips or hinges, ball couplings, flexible couplings, or pressure couplings, could respectively be utilized to make a device which would be enabled to implement the method of the invention. Also on the intermediate level of complexity, alternate embodiments of the invention may be done as an attachably detachable C or U or other type clasp or add-on collar, or magnetic attachment which fits onto a suitable control member type of object such as a writing instrument, with such clasping methods further having a fixed or rotational connective method, such as a friction hinge or flexible tube. 
     On the more complex end of the spectrum of possible combinations of a graspable, twistable control member and a miniaturized pointer arm utilizing suitable movably angleable connective methods, two elongated members and suitable connective methods, for those readers whose hands are handicapped in various ways that prevent them from being able to twist with the thumb and fingers, a mechanical, or an electric embodiment of the invention may be made and utilized. A control member could be made to adjustably shuttle a movably angleable pointer arm by mechanical methods, such as a triggering mechanism that when pulled would cause a suitably connective pointer arm to swing to the right and which, when released, would be forced back by an opposing spring force. Or, a control member could be made into an electromechanical device which adjustably shuttles a movably angleable pointer arm by electrical means, such as a triggering switch which, when mounted within a control member, would activate an electrical circuit with a portable power source, such as a battery, to cause a small motor to rotate a reciprocal crank attached to a lever end of a pointer arm. Alternately, in various electromechanical configurations, a solenoid rocker or other appropriate electromotive method could be utilized to swing a pointer arm in the method of the invention. 
     In the above specification of the basic and alternate embodiments of the improved text line underscoring and overscoring method and its implementation devices, the invention is clearly distinguished from the prior art of the larger-order generic hand-held pointer, or finger pointing means. What clearly defines the differences between the present invention and its prior art in terms of high speed or ordinary reading of text lines is that, in the present invention, minimal effort is required to effect the same underscoring or overscoring result that takes considerable effort when utilizing the finger or a larger-order object as a generic pointing means. Additionally, the present invention addresses the issues of different reading positions by requiring the pointing angle of a pointer arm to be controllably movably angleable, either through fixed-angle changes, or by rotational-angle changes. 
     The improved text line underscoring and overscoring method and its implementation device allow a new and novel effect to occur, which is the startling act of “seeing past” an oscillating pointer tip to smoothly read text lines at a high rate. The invention also solves the common problem of how to read faster without undue discomfort. The invention also has never been done before in this particular manner for the specific and exclusive design purpose of underscoring or overscoring text lines to be read. The implementation devices of the improved method work properly for the task for which they are exclusively intended, to allow a reader to read more efficiently, but, other than the light-beam pointer arm embodiment, have no other known useful purpose. Other than the light-beam pointer arm embodiment, all of the other implementation devices have intentionally shortened and thinned out pointer arms, which would be useless for any distant objective pointing. 
     As earlier noted in the discussion of the prior art of reading pointers, the prior art teaches that when a pointer tip is to be used for the specific task of underscoring or overscoring text lines to be read, it is necessary that the pointer tip can be manually controlled in such a way that it passes evenly back and forth, in a zigzag manner, across the linear spaces beneath or above the text lines, and downward through the reading material, at a consistently high rate. The prior art method thus teaches the reader the skill of linear continuity during rapid reading. That is, the prior art method teaches the reader to read without making unrequired eye stops, while also enabling the reader to momentarily stop to re-read certain words or phrases. It is also useful in the prior art method when the pointer tip can be easily manipulated to snap back to its start position at the left side of the text line to reduce the time the eye follows the pointer tip. That is, so that the pointer tip controllably snaps back into position for the next line to be read, and when the pointer tip is enabled to be easily and accurately moved downward through the text as the back and forth sweeping process of pointer tip aiming is occurring. But, as noted, these methods of the prior art are tedious and uncomfortably awkward to utilize. 
     The improved method of the present invention addresses and resolves each of these issues by having a pointer tip which is enabled to be effortlessly and accurately rotated through the required 90° arc necessary to sweep the pointer tip at a consistently high rate back and forth across the linear spaces between text lines of any print, or virtual print material, and so easily underscore or overscore the text lines. The improved method of the invention promotes a smooth continuous left-to-right motion of the eyes, and allows for quick returns to the left side of the text, and yet also allows for ease of momentary stoppage and rapid repeat scanning of misunderstood portions of text lines. The implementation device of the present invention is as well easily and accurately moved downward through the text as the back and forth shuttling process of pointer tip targeting occurs. Additionally, the present invention is lightweight, comfortable to hold, and virtually effortless to use. 
     ESSENCE OF THE INVENTION 
     From all of the drawings, descriptions and accounts of operation of the various implementation embodiments of the present invention cited above, the essence of the invention as an improved text line underscoring and overscoring device is that it typically has: 
     a. a graspable control member 
     b. which may be grasped between the thumb and fingers at a first end, and which is 
     c. connective at a second end with a first end of 
     d. a movably angleable pointer arm which has been provided with 
     e. a suitably connective mounting method so that the first end of the movably angleable pointer arm can be movably angled within a plane which is within, or adjacent to, or on an angle to, a plane bisecting the longitudinal rotational axis of the control member, which suitably connective mounting method is either 
     f. a pivotably mountable connective method, or 
     g. a fixed-angle mountable connective method, or wherein 
     h. a pointer arm is a movably angleable light beam, so that 
     i. when the thumb and fingers twist the graspable control surface of the control member in alternating directions, the first end of the pointer arm will be urged to rotate, and 
     j. a second pointing end of the pointer arm will shuttle left and right in an oscillating arc, irrespective of the angle to which the pointer arm has been movably angled, 
     whereby, 
     the second pointing end of the pointer arm will be enabled to be moved across a targeted linear space beneath or above a text line while in alignment with a reader&#39;s line of sight, and allow a reader to see past the shuttling second pointing end as the device is manually lowered down the text lines, and so underscore or overscore text lines. 
     What is new and significant about the specified implementation devices of the present invention is that each such device conforms to the specific requirements of the specified method of the invention, beyond which they would have only limited useful purpose. Or again, if devices bearing the specific combination of manufacturing parameters as just specified were made and referred to by others as a “reading device,” or “reading pointer,” or “pointing device,” or the like, each would be, by direct reference or implication, implementation devices of the method of the present invention. Thus the scope of the invention should be determined by the appended claims and their legal equivalents, rather than by the several examples given.