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Just like listening takes practice, reading on a new device takes practice. I can't tell you how many people have little to no listening skills yet that was the dominant practice before 1945.
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I read my first e-book on a Palm m105... and it was awkward. Read Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern on my Toshiba Pocket PC and it was... OK. But these days, I just grab an e-reader or a tablet and start reading. And it feels completely normal. |
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I adjusted pretty quickly. Within an hour anyway.
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Didn't take me long at all, just figured out the interface and I was off and running. But I'm very, very comfortable with technology and always have been, so I don't think I'm the norm. |
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1) 25% of the users would read Story A on paper and then Story B on e-ink 2) 25% of the users would read Story A on e-ink and then Story B on paper 3) 25% of the users would read Story B on paper and then Story A on e-ink 4) 25% of the users would read Story B on e-ink and then Story A on paper All readers should already be familiar with reading on e-ink technology to remove the distraction of a new technology. If the goal is to determine if you retain more information on paper or e-ink then that would be a much more logical approach. With the approach that was taken there are a lot more variables and with such a small sample size the results are meaningless. |
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Of course there is the varying absorbability of the test subjects.
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And the fact that not everyone likes to read the same thing no matter what the medium. A book you enjoy and can't put down til you finish it at 2 a.m. might take me a week or longer to slog through (if I even finish it at all) because for what ever reason the story just fails to grab me like it does you.
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I absorb more on Kindle. Only if I'm researching I struggle to remember in which book was that information.
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I go for the "Eau, You have cats" Smell of Books myself but have found a cheap substitute is to just get one of our furry critters to pee on the back of my ereader . (PS: You been away completing teshuva ?) |
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Well, it is certainly true that paper books absorb more water than electronic books.
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08-26-2014, 03:46 AM | #75 |
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Cats again, isn't it? I really do love all the discussions here!
Okay - I'm doing the odd hardcopy of some documents for "closer reading". Earns me raised eyebrows from younger colleagues my shuffling around the pages and taking handwritten (sic!) notes. I still remember reading at a monitor not being normal and nearly all pdfs received being sent to the printer. So perhaps all a matter of "being used to" and time. The question if text reception (however this one is put into measurable terms) is depandent on medium (hardcover, pocketbook, etext at large screens, dedicated ereaders, tablets, smartphones etc) is a valid one imho. The study discussed is well documented, can be re-run, improved on in various aspects. So there should be "scientific" progress in identifying differences between media used for reading (I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for conclusive results though). But every scientist should know that there is a big step to take from finding differences and judging them in terms of better/worse. Looking at the study I think the authors should have been more cautious with their conclusions and interpretation. Not that all caution would hinder the press picking up the results under the headline "Kindle users do not understand what they are reading - study shows". We all are a good deal wary about all things which have are seem to have a negative slant on ebooks/ereaders - some posters here are quite vocal on this one. I share the sentiment as I see us in the middle of missing the chance of open up the whole world of literature for new generations with etexts - giving a choice in times of www-snippets of entertainment, "information", opinions etc. For my post-WWII generation pocketbooks did that - in my case even more than public libraries did. Nowadays all the major players making the big decisions have clearly a different agenda - money and power being the operational terms. |
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