Quote:
Originally Posted by latepaul
But even if the page numbers remain the same you won't necessarily remember the page number. And if you're holding a physical book you're more likely to remember roughly how far through you were from the thickness of the pages read so far, than you are to remember that the page number was in the 60s-90s if you only ever glance at the page numbers anyway.
At least that'd be true for me.
|
Yes, this is what I mean--I'll have a sense that something I'm looking for was a third of the way back in the middle of the page. I don't know the page number, unless maybe it's the page I began on that day.
I can remember taking tests in college and visualizing the textbook page to try to retrieve some bit of information in my memory banks. If I needed to do that with an e-book, I don't know that I could--there's nothing to help differentiate one screen from another so that I'd be able to access the memory.