Productivity and Reading, Is Reading Paper more Productive than Reading a Screen?
Reading paper isn’t more effective than reading a screen, but you’ll stick at reading paper longer, according to an interesting study in the journal of the American Psychological Association.
The study was investigating whether readers preferred to read from a screen or a book and which was the most effective at providing information.
The research showed that under fixed study time, reading from a screen was just as effective as reading paper at transferring information successfully. However, when people were allowed to choose their own length of study, they kept studying longer if they were reading paper than if they reading a screen.
We seem to exhibit better self control at knuckling down and concentrating on paper than on screens. This may be because reading from paper is slightly less tiring. I certainly find it so, though I find a good eReader to be as easy to read as paper.
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