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E-paper is a pretty similar experience in my opinion and personally I've read more books on my e-reader than I have through physical media. Love the little thin
by jerojero 5y ago
E-paper is a pretty similar experience in my opinion and personally I've read more books on my e-reader than I have through physical media. Love the little thing, I have a jailbroken Kindle Voyage with Koreader and it's the best e-reader experience I've had in years.
But to stay on topic, if I were to give you a wild guess, I think it might have to do with the sort of feedback you get form reading physically compared to digital. The mere act of turning a page might trigger positive feedback loops in your brain that you don't really get with the sort of instant-page turning from e-readers.
It might also have to do with people just not being used to the medium, I got my mom an e-reader and for a while it worked for her but eventually she went back to physical books, she's just much more used to them.
- Zanni 5y agoThis. Reading a book is a physical act. Every word exists in a unique position in 3D space. When you read a book, you automatically create a bespoke (but imperfect) memory palace for it that corresponds to the physical artifact in your hands. It is much easier to scan for information in a physical book because you retain a sense of where it is. By contrast, an eReader is just an endlessly refreshing pane of glass with no additional context.
- qorrect 5y ago