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E-Reading Is Convenient, But It’s Less Memorable (Literally)

IDEAS Posted: August 15, 2014 12:51 am

“In most respects, there was no significant difference between the Kindle readers and the paper readers [in the study] But, the Kindle readers scored significantly lower on questions about when events in the story occurred. They also performed almost twice as poorly when asked to arrange 14 plot points in the correct sequence.” Says one of the researchers, “It’s interesting to us that the differences were both related to time and temporality – why is that?”

IDEAS Published: 08.14.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 08.14.14

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