Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenience?(nytimes.com)
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Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenience?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/arts/reading-literature-on-screen-a-price-for-convenience.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0
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Perhaps constantly seeing and feeling the read and unread pages of the book reinforces the sense of when things happened in the story.
I strongly suspect you're right. I know that before I could 'grep' digital text, when I remembered something I read in a book, I'd have a rough idea of its page-depth and position on page (in addition to general context) which aided in a visual-scan to re-locate.
Perhaps an e-book interface with stronger indicators of progress could cure the discrepancy. (One idea: shift the entire page slightly inside imbalanced margins based on how deep in the book you are.) Or perhaps people who have only ever read e-books wouldn't be as dependent on pending-pages-physicality.
Or maybe future Kindles could actually become flatter as you progress through the story, via some sort of deflation mechanism.
Perhaps an e-book interface with stronger indicators of progress could cure the discrepancy. (One idea: shift the entire page slightly inside imbalanced margins based on how deep in the book you are.) Or perhaps people who have only ever read e-books wouldn't be as dependent on pending-pages-physicality.
Or maybe future Kindles could actually become flatter as you progress through the story, via some sort of deflation mechanism.
There's nothing more annoying than remembering only that a certain quote you'd like to reference was on the bottom of a left-hand page of a book you finished last week!
Why didn't they mention ebook beats on "objects"
For some reason, they chose a Kindle DX which is not book-like at all, and would have substantially larger pages. Why wouldn't they have just used normal Kindles?
People who read a lot like high word densities. I find the small size of the standard Kindle annoying. The DX is fairly close to the size of a hardback textbook.
I'm sad that it's still so expensive, though, especially since it has that dirty gray look compared to the newer e-ink readers.
I'm sad that it's still so expensive, though, especially since it has that dirty gray look compared to the newer e-ink readers.
Based on my experience, I read e-books faster than paper books, which can make timelines a bit fuzzy when remembering.