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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
Another prejudice is that reading is somehow superior when done from paper.
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This is an area in which studies need to be done over an extended period of time with a large sample size. Questions that need to get asked are things like the following:
- What is the average reading speed on paper, eInk and LCD?
- How much information is immediately retained?
- How much information is retained in long-term memory?
- How easily can a reader find information in a text they previously read, weeks, months or even years later?
AFAIK, these studies have not been attempted in any scientific manner. Until they are done, we simply don't know if reading is superior when it is done on paper. I can think of reasons why it might be, and reasons why it wouldn't be.
With my own book, I quickly learned that while releasing it as an eBook was relatively easy, formatting and releasing it as a printed book was a much more complicated and involved process. And some of my potential readers told me that as much as they wanted to read my book, they simply didn't have the necessary hardware to read it as an eBook.