Reading on Paper is Faster than iBooks on the iPad

[italianReader]

According to this news, people read faster on paper book....

Nielsen's findings were based on the performance of 24 users who "like reading and frequently read books." The subjects each read different short stories by Ernest Hemingway on all four platforms, and were measured for their reading speeds and story comprehension. Overall, it took each user an average of 17 minutes and 20 seconds to read a story regardless of the platform and comprehension levels were virtually identical on all four reading formats.

However, Nielsen says the printed book was the clear winner in terms of speed. Users were reading 6.2 percent slower on an iPad compared to paper, and 10.7 percent slower on the Kindle 2. Nielsen did not provide any statistics on the reading time for the PC monitor.

do you agree? have you ever noticed it?

I really don't think so, on the contrary I think that probably I'd read faster on my e-book if it hadn't been for some dictionary-lookups, but of course this is only an opportunity and not a constraint.

[HarryT]

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Thanks!