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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Mine lost it's page every now and then. Usually after battery failure..
And the difference between paperbook and e-ink there, is speed.
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Speed of course and something more difficult to explain like "spatial visual representation".
First test :
Have you tried to read a very long text on internet via a computer screen, scrolling down to go to the end?
It's horrible. Your brain can't do this apparently very easy task, whereas you could read so easily the same length article in a magazine.
Ereaders have improved this by dividing this long text in multiple pages, so trying to simulate a book.
Try now the second test :
Have you tried to learn a lesson, a long and difficult course thanks to your ereader?
I'm sure you could but it's not easy. When given the choice, most people will
print their course.
The reason is due to our "spatial visual"feature. I've read something about that, maybe it's related to the ancient capability of our forebears, where having a cerebral representation of their space was so important, to remember where are the best fruits, where do you find water etc...
Your brain needs visual signes to remember something. The ereader offer only this little note below where it's indicated that you are at the page "12/345". It's good for a very reasonable, computer brain, but ours need more than that to have a perfect representation of the space.
And it's the same problem, not only to learn your lesson, but when you're reading a complex academic paper, where you must very correctly remember what was written before, or sometimes go back and forth a few pages before (or even 20 pages before
without knowingly exactly at which page it was)