Friday, August 22, 2014  Making Ebooks More Physical  Socrates
to Plato in Phaedrus "A new study which found that readers using
a Kindle were "significantly" worse than paperback readers at
recalling when events occurred in a mystery story is part of
major new Europe-wide research looking at the impact of
digitisation on the reading experience." ... "The Kindle readers
performed significantly worse on the plot reconstruction
measure, ie, when they were asked to place 14 events in the
correct order."   "When you read on paper you can sense with
your fingers a pile of pages on the left growing, and shrinking
on the right," said Mangen. "You have the tactile sense of
progress, in addition to the visual ... [The differences for
Kindle readers] might have something to do with the fact that
the fixity of a text on paper, and this very gradual unfolding
of paper as you progress through a story, is some kind of
sensory offload, supporting the visual sense of progress when
you're reading. Perhaps this somehow aids the