Recommended Reading: “Another Defensive Post About e-reading”
E-readers are getting really bad press lately, thanks mainly to a small study coming out of Europe and today’s announcement that the Los Angeles Unified ...
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Are physical books better than e-books?Research on e-readers in schools (#2)
My good friend Pete sent me this article last week, which summarizes a forthcoming study that suggests that students reading on Kindles comprehend less than th...
Research on e-readers in schools (#1)
Recently I rediscovered the excellent electronic databases at the San Francisco Public Library, which means I can get access to JSTOR and do other nerdy things...
Bye, bye, books? Young people prefer screens.
A study from the United Kingdom reports that young people aged 8 to 16 prefer reading text on screens rather than in print. Does this mean that the book is dea...