[ardeegee]

Originally Posted by danbloom

Good points, and I agree, mostly. BUT ardeegee, the jury is still out on this, in terms of neuroscience.

Yes, the jury is indeed "still out" on scientific studies backing up a baseless assertion that you just now pulled out of your rear! Is there any evidence for what you are asserting, or are you just making a baseless claim and saying "prove that I'm wrong"? Because that isn't the way science works. Prove to us why you are right.

But I have a hunch that the differences will be HUGE, not monumental, but huge.

And I have the hunch that your silly baseless assertion is a silly baseless assertion. Unless you have citations for peer-reviewed, double-blind studies showing difference degrees in data retention depending on by which means text is displayed?

For pleasure reading, light reading, not important. But reading important material -- literature, poetry, oped columns, New York Sunday Times Magazine 8-page stories about ideas and history and politics and feelings, I think, my hunch tells me, that there might be a big difference.

Your "hunch" and (insert a single-digit number of dollars here, I donno, I don't drink coffee) will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. You are stating utterly subjective personal anecdotes and trying to dress them in the clothes of evidence. And what distinguishes "pleasure reading, light reading" from reading "literature, poetry"? What if one enjoys reading "literature" and poetry? Wouldn't that make it "pleasure reading"? And, assuming that "literature" means "fiction", and a separate category from "pleasure reading, light reading", then what do you conciser to be "pleasure reading, light reading" if it excludes fiction? Or are you going to assert a subjective opinion on what fiction should be called "pleasure reading, light reading" and which should be considered "literature"?

I'll reiterate my own subjective, unresearched opinion-- the idea that you retain data differently if you are looking at dies pressed into wood pulp vs. capsules of pigment sandwiched between two pieces of glass is silly bunk.