I think it is more like Whack-A-Mole than beating a dead horse. We whack that mole of questionable studies because they keep being presented again and again. Reading off a computer screen isn't the same as reading from an e-reader. Before I tried a Kindle, I assumed it would be like reading from a computer screen.
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In most respects, there was no significant difference between the Kindle readers and the paper readers: the emotional measures were roughly the same, and both groups of readers responded almost equally to questions dealing with the setting of the story, the characters and other plot details. But, the Kindle readers scored significantly lower on questions about when events in the story occurred. They also performed almost twice as poorly when asked to arrange 14 plot points in the correct sequence.
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They really dug to find some difference and overplay that difference while glossing over the similarities.