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Maybe it's generational (I'm 33) and maybe it's personal preference, but I much prefer a physical book over reading on a tablet. I remember reading an article s
by jstalin 14y ago
Maybe it's generational (I'm 33) and maybe it's personal preference, but I much prefer a physical book over reading on a tablet. I remember reading an article somewhere saying that our brains do a better job of organizing material if it's a physical book because part of the organization process is remembering where in the book the remembered material was. I get no sense of "place" when reading an e-book. I even print out important material because that makes it easier for me to read.
- pkorzeniewski 14y agoI have similar feelings about reading books on tablet, I just can't get used to it. The only advantage to me is the unlimited number of books I can 'carry', otherwise I'll always choose a physical book.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoI find tablets fine for reading one single book, in particular when you're reading that book from cover to cover. So if I want to buy a fiction book (e.g. The Hobbit) on my Kindle it works just fine. But when it comes to non-fiction/reference books the technology is just not ready. You don't read cover to cover, you bounce around, you mark sections, you take notes, you check your answers in the back, and yet the software I have seen does all of this stuff badly. Plus whenever people roll out one of these snazzy "look how hip and modern we are" school programs I never read about how much they spent on teacher training or development of researches (apps, lesson plans, etc). So I always wonder if they literally just turned up with a pack of iPads one day and said to the teachers "make this work!" Without any real thought given to how exactly the teachers are meant to use them.
- crusso 14y agoI'm 10 years older than you, but when I'm doing development, I hardly use physical materials at all anymore. Development problems melt like butter when confronted with Chrome->Google->stackexchange. The last thing I want to start doing is searching around for the right book, look through the index, thumb from indexed page to indexed page, look back at the index because I forgot the 4th page number I saw that looked like it might apply, wonder if the latest version of the framework I'm using fixed the problem I'm seeing, etc. My kids live on their tablets and computers. They will have even less problems adapting to that mode of working than we do - and the solutions they have to reproduce useful paper techniques like highlighting and note taking will completely change the picture in high-tech's favor.