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FF2 · 05-03-2011, 01:14 PM

Interesting observations.

I found this very true of the only hiking guide I downloaded. It just does not work the way my paper hiking guides work. Leafing back and forth to compare hikes, data pictures.

And I recall when I did read textbooks (law school) the observation of recalling which side of the double-leaf something appeared on or even the context of a paragraph were retained making it easy to re-find the info I KNEW was there somewhere.

Same even with paging through a magazine where I know I saw "IT" and can almost "taste" its location on some page. Back and forth - and there IT is. Can't do that with ebooks. But maybe that is the result of how us oldsters read/think and the young-ens will be better at this.

I think reading literature (plays, poems (if structured correctly), novels, etc) work well. FACTS, charts, data - maybe not so much.

05-03-2011, 01:14 PM	#6
FF2 Wizard Posts: 1,105 Karma: 1025784 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: WiFi Kindle3	Interesting observations. I found this very true of the only hiking guide I downloaded. It just does not work the way my paper hiking guides work. Leafing back and forth to compare hikes, data pictures. And I recall when I did read textbooks (law school) the observation of recalling which side of the double-leaf something appeared on or even the context of a paragraph were retained making it easy to re-find the info I KNEW was there somewhere. Same even with paging through a magazine where I know I saw "IT" and can almost "taste" its location on some page. Back and forth - and there IT is. Can't do that with ebooks. But maybe that is the result of how us oldsters read/think and the young-ens will be better at this. I think reading literature (plays, poems (if structured correctly), novels, etc) work well. FACTS, charts, data - maybe not so much.