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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
The digital text also disrupted a technique called cognitive mapping, in which readers used physical cues, such as the location on the page and the position in the book to find a section of text or even to help retain and recall the information they had read.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ents_uw_s.html |
Nice to know that has a name! I've tried explaining it to people how I can find something by where I read it on the page, even years later. They just attributed it to having some kind of photographic memory, but I don't have photographic memory for stuff, just words on a page.
I have e-read faithfully for 8 years now, but certain books just haven't lent themselves to flowable e-reading. With the iPad, PDFs are replicas of the printed page, so I can still using cognitive mapping.
But no app or device has perfected the annotation part of reading.
I can see why the OSU study found the iPad to be useful - there are more useful work-arounds for note-taking. When I'm highly motivated to highlight or take notes on a e-book, I can flip between Notepad and the e-book App and copy/paste, or type my own notes.
However, I think switching to e-textbooks would vary a lot based on the major. I would have found my iPad very useful as a English and History major, but I probably would have still purchased general college course textbooks.