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I wonder that it may be more of the case that we tend to scan things presented on electronic displays and that may become a learned behavior. Perhaps it just requires a different effort to read on an electronic display rather than a book.
In the past I found that reading documents on the web on a monitor did not foster the retention that I possessed when printing them and reading them on paper. After reading on e-ink for some time now, I don't believe there is much if any difference in retention. I further wonder that one must make an adjustment to relax and abandon the scanning reflex that we've developed probably as a reaction to all the clutter that surrounds the information we really want from the dross of ads and links found on the average web page.
I think there may be something to the idea that books are a bit different spatially with opposing pages providing some change in overall view. The mind very quickly ignores things that don't appear to change. Maybe retention would improve more rapidly if alternating pages were rendered offset from center in opposing directions as with a book... That'd be a simple study.
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