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Study Suggests Better Tech Means Higher Reading Comprehension on the Small Screen

12 December, 201614 December, 2016e-Reading Tech, Scientific Study3 Comments

New research from the Neilsen Norman group casts doubt on previous research which had shown that readers are no longer losing reading comprehension when they read on...

Updated: Reading Books Will Help You Live Longer, Researchers Say

4 August, 20164 August, 2016DeBunking, Scientific Study9 Comments

The NYTimes and other news orgs may have just fallen into another correlation/causation trap. Yesterday they published an article which implies that you will live longer if...

Computer Vision Syndrome, or Why We Would All be Better Off With an E-ink Monitor

5 June, 20162 June, 2017e-Reading Hardware, Scientific Study13 Comments

The NYTimes published an article last week which reminds us why an expensive toy like Dasung’s E-ink monitor is less an indulgence than a necessity. The article delves into...

New Error-Ridden Report Looks at eBook Market in Europe

11 February, 201613 February, 2016Scientific Study, surveys & pollsOne Comment

The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) just wasted a lot of people’s time. The EPRS has published a new briefing document on the state of the...

Study Finds Open Source Textbooks as Effective as Commercial

15 November, 201512 May, 2017Creative Commons, Open Source, Scientific Study, Textbooks & Digital Textbooks3 Comments

A recent study has found that college students who used open educational resources (OER) in their undergraduate courses performed as well or better than those assigned commercial...

Could the Future of Reading be Text Plus Audio?

13 September, 201516 November, 2019Scientific Study4 Comments

When it comes to reading on paper versus reading digitally, there are a hundred and one conflicting and contradictory studies that show that one format is...

Studies Disagree on Whether Readers Absorb Less on Kindles than on Paper

20 August, 201416 November, 2019Scientific Study, surveys & polls9 Comments

The Guardian reported yesterday on a new study which showed that reading on a Kindle led test subjects to recall fewer details from the story, leading some...

Study: eBooks Beat Print Books at Helping Young Kids Learn Words

6 May, 201411 August, 2015Education, Scientific Study5 Comments

With some studies showing enhanced ebooks hurt while other studies show that ebook readers help readers learn, the jury is still out on the topic of...

Enhanced eBooks Don’t Necessarily Enhance Education

14 April, 201413 September, 2015Education, Enhanced eBook, Scientific Study5 Comments

We’ve long known that when games and other enhancements are added to ebooks they can distract readers from paying attention to the text, and now it...

New Report Suggests Wifi is Probably Not Frying Your Brain

5 April, 201411 May, 2017Scientific StudyLeave a comment

A new report from the Royal Society of Canada calls into question the ongoing urban legends about the possible harmful effects of Wifi. The 165 page...

Study: It’s Easier (For Some) to Read on LCD Screens Than in a Paper Book

9 February, 201313 September, 2015Scientific Study11 Comments

I have long held the position that LCD screens aren’t as evil as everyone claims, and that the belief that E-ink is better for you eyes...

Does the Backlight on the iPad Really Help Improve Reading Speed? Maybe Not

13 November, 20126 May, 2014Scientific StudyLeave a comment

There’s a story going around today about a recent study at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. According to most press accounts, ophthalmologists at the school...

Study: E-ink is NOT Better for Your Eyes Than LCDs

2 October, 201216 November, 2019Scientific Study86 Comments

If you’ve been reading ebooks for any length of time then you’ve probably heard about how E-ink screens are nicer on the eyes than LCD screens....

Do eBooks Make It Harder to Recall What You Just Read? Answer: No

14 March, 201211 August, 2015Scientific Study, surveys & polls10 Comments

I’m rather busy with a conference right now, but there’s an article that was posted today that has me pissed. I have to respond to it. ...

That funky font study actually does mean what it says

17 January, 201113 September, 2015Scientific Study, surveys & polls3 Comments

So an interesting study showed up on the internet in the past few days (Daily Mail). Three grad students at Princeton University and Indiana University did...