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Originally Posted by dreams
I remember information for reference by where I recall I saw it. Top of page, bottom of page, left side, right side, by this picture or that chart, etc.
Even now, I can pick up a text and recall where to find something by where I remember seeing it in relation to what was around it.
I wonder if this is something related to how our generation became accustomed to learning and future generations will be brought up to learn to gather and recall information differently?
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That's interesting. I would doubt it, based on what I recall from
Ellard's book about how human beings navigate. We seem to be built around some very uniform principles (landmarks vs. turn-based nav for example) that leads me to suspect that our ways of finding our place in a book may be quite slow to change. OP's article seems to bear this out. Of course, I have no idea how slow this transition may be.
Perhaps you are right and web 2.0 has been busy preparing the next generation (and even this one for that matter) to use keyword-based navigation (in the sense of "marking" passages or lines using keywords instead of their place in the physical book). Keyword-based bookmarking (I haven't seen this yet - just thinking out loud) may be a nice way to "find your place" in ebooks.