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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
It looks like they had to dig to find anything. Studies found that "when the exact same material is presented in both media, there is no measurable difference in student performance." So they kept digging, and found that poor psychology students and gave them economic texts to read, and found that more repetition was requires when using a computer rather than a paper text. An e-reader screen is not a computer display. The article also talks about landmarks on the paper page that help people remember. But when I'm looking at text on a page, it tends to be nothing but text on a page, whether I am reading a paper book or reading from an e-reader. A textbook can be laid out to make the data more digestible, but there's no reason this can't be done with an e-reader.
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Unless we're talking about more technical books, with graphics and complex layouts.
ereaders are flat and will always present the information on that way.
Paperbooks have thickness , X number of pages. I can recall very well, that I do have a SQL 2008 book with a very nice table that display differences against SQL 2005. I remember that because it is almost at the beginning of the book. Also, when I'm in my office at home, I can visualize the same book (without knowing the title) because is red and is a "huge" book. I can see the book's spine, grab it, and open it almost on same page. On my Kindle, I will have to check one by one, as there is no "search" capability for images.
Got my point? Maybe I am not explaining myself well.
My Kindle is flat, will have the same color and can hold thousand of books. That can't be changed. So those type of nemonic aids can't be easily reproduced. Does that affect while reading novels? I don't think so. But at least on me, it has some positive effect while studying or learning technical stuff. I never though about it until I read this article.