{"id":14174,"date":"2012-03-19T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14174"},"modified":"2012-03-19T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T15:25:47","slug":"an-unanticipated-down-side-to-e-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/an-unanticipated-down-side-to-e-books\/","title":{"rendered":"An unanticipated down-side to e-books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s possible that e-books actually make it harder to <a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2012\/03\/14\/do-e-books-impair-memory\/?iid=hl-main-lede\" target=\"_blank\">retain what we read<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I received a Kindle for my birthday, and enjoying \u201clight reading,\u201d in addition to the dense science I read for work, I immediately loaded it with mysteries by my favorite authors. But I soon found that I had difficulty recalling the names of characters from chapter to chapter. At first, I attributed the lapses to a scary reality of getting older \u2014 but then I discovered that I didn\u2019t have this problem when I read paperbacks.<\/p>\n<p>When I discussed my quirky recall with friends and colleagues, I found out I wasn\u2019t the only one who suffered from \u201ce-book moments.\u201d Online, I discovered that Google\u2019s Larry Page himself had concerns about research showing that on-screen reading is measurably slower than reading on paper.<\/p>\n<p>This seems like a particularly troubling trend for academia, where digital books are slowly overtaking the heavy tomes I used to lug around. On many levels, e-books seem like better alternatives to textbooks \u2014 they can be easily updated and many formats allow readers to interact with the material more, with quizzes, video, audio and other multimedia to reinforce lessons. But some studies suggest that there may be significant advantages in printed books if your goal is to remember what you read long-term.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/03\/do-we-remember-less-well-when-we-read-from-computer-screens.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Cowen<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s possible that e-books actually make it harder to retain what we read: I received a Kindle for my birthday, and enjoying \u201clight reading,\u201d in addition to the dense science I read for work, I immediately loaded it with mysteries by my favorite authors. But I soon found that I had difficulty recalling the names [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28,15],"tags":[174,460],"class_list":["post-14174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","category-technology","tag-innovation","tag-textbooks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3GC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14176,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174\/revisions\/14176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}