Reading Online Differs From Reading Books

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The 2011 Freshman Survey from UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute found that the top reason for attending college was "to be able to get a better job" (86 percent of respondents, up from 70 percent just five years earlier).
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(Adult fiction remains the best-selling category of e-books in both the United States and Britain.)
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The bottom line is that while digital devices may be fine for reading that we don’t intend to muse over or reread, text that requires what’s been called "deep reading" is nearly always better done in print.
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In this country, 26 percent indicated they were likely to multitask while reading in print, compared with 85 percent when reading on-screen.

http://chronicle.com/article/How-E-Reading-Threatens/147661/

July 14, 2014
How E-Reading Threatens Learning in the Humanities
By Naomi S. Baron