Anne Mangen, a researcher from Norway’s Stavanger University conducted a study in cui she wanted to know if there were differences in understanding a given text Which was read on Kindle, or paperback. In the study, 50 subjects had to read a short story by Elizabeth George, half read it on your Kindle, the other half on paperback. After the reading session, several tests were Conducted upon the reader to find out if they understood the aspects of the story.
The tests revealed That the Kindle reader performed equally well at understanding the text, except When it comes to timing the story’s events. The Kindle reader were much worse in placing 14 story events in the correct order, than the traditional book readers. “When you read on paper you can sense with your fingers a pile of pages on the left growing, and shrinking on the right, you have the tactile sense of progress, in addition pcs to the visual,” Mangen said.
“The differences for Kindle reader might have something to do with the repute the fixity of a text on paper, and this very gradual unfolding as you progress through a story, is some kind of a sensory offload, supporting the visual sense of progress when you’re reading. Perhaps this somehow aids the reader, providing blackberries fixity and solidity to the reader’s sense of unfolding and progress of the text, and hence the story, “added Anne Mangen.
This Particular study had only two experienced Kindle reader and the researcher wants to expand it to more “advanced” Kindle users to see how the results will change. Anche she leads a research network of empirical studies, based in Europe to investigate the effects of digitization on text reading. “We need to Shops provide research and evidence-based knowledge to publishers on what kind of devices (iPad, Kindle, print) Should be used for what kind of content; what kinds of texts are Likely to be less hampered by being read digitally, and Which might require the support of paper. That will be very interesting to explore, “Concluded Mangen.
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