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The rapid growth of World Wide Web has been tremendous in recent years. With the large amount of information on the Internet, web pages have turned to the main source of information. However, reading web pages faces some obstacles and readability issues.

Is using "face issue" for "reading" and adding "readability" as adjective, a natural combination?

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    Reading...faces ...some...readability issues is an issue. "Turned to" should read "become". Simpler to say "Web pages have some readability issues". Writing faces readability issues, not reading.
    – TimR
    Commented Aug 16, 2015 at 20:14
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    Did you mean "turned into"? Or you could use become; "web pages have become the main source of information"
    – user3169
    Commented Aug 16, 2015 at 21:14
  • I think "turn out to be the ...:")
    – Cardinal
    Commented Aug 16, 2015 at 21:14
  • Also, I would not put "obstacles and readability" together if readability is an obstacle. Perhaps "However, reading web pages faces some obstacles such as readability issues (and XXX)."
    – user3169
    Commented Aug 16, 2015 at 21:19
  • I think it would be slightly more natural to say that reading web pages has some issues, but faces or encounters some obstacles. My reasoning is that obstacles and issues are not quite parallel. Metaphorically, "obstacles" are outside of the act of reading but prevent the act from occurring, but "issues" are a part of the act of reading. A reader may face an issue or an obstacle, though.
    – Wim Lewis
    Commented Aug 16, 2015 at 22:17

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Your use of issues is correct however I would definitely make some changes:

The rapid growth of the World Wide Web has been tremendous in recent years. With the large amount of information on the Internet, web pages have become the main source of information. However, in reading web pages , there are some obstacles and readability issues.

That is probably the closest fix to what you wrote.

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