<div dir="ltr">Indeed - and paper has a better track record in terms of lasting hundreds of years and still being readable. My 8", 5.25" , 3.5" and Zip disks are still in safe storage but I doubt I could find a machine to read them now. Though some may argue that reading books that are a few centuries old is not a simple process either. <div>
.<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Having said that, I found myself hand-gesturing over a print book the other day to make the text bigger, and flicking to turn a page.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure if Spritz <a href="http://www.spritzinc.com/#">http://www.spritzinc.com/#</a> has been mentioned here but that is VERY interesting as a way to read text. However as in the article Mark provided, it lacks almost all the visual cues that a printed page provides, and while you can read very fast you can also get very lost, especially where the reading becomes non-linear . For example, when you want to quickly check what an abbreviation stands for, you have to break the process. It does feel like it has some purpose in life however -maybe some students can help identify what.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/</a> has a bit more info on the screen vs paper comparison<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Ken </div><div>TASITE <a href="http://tasite.tas.edu.au">tasite.tas.edu.au</a></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/05/reading-on-screen-versus-paper/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/2014/05/reading-on-screen-versus-paper/</a><div>
<br></div><div>At last - an erudite and magnificent article that agrees with me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>"Paper books were supposed to be dead by now. For years, information theorists, marketers, and early adopters have told us their demise was imminent. ... Yet in a world of screen ubiquity, many people still prefer to do their serious reading on paper."</div>
<div><br></div><div>Even kids prefer paper text books, apparently! The paper medium removes online distractions and tangential links to focus on deep reading and focused learning.</div><div><br></div><div>Good old paper. </div>
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