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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
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.
They really dug to find some difference and overplay that difference while glossing over the similarities.
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I think it might be true though, that bit. I tend to remember events in books not only by what had happened before or after in the text, but where it was physically in the book. Like I would know that something happened about half way through and if I wanted to find it I would open it about half way and start skimming. With ebooks I don't really have a feel for how long it is or where I am in the book. I know I could look for page numbers or locations but I just don't. Even so for fiction I greatly prefer ebooks.