New Sci<\/a> if you can access it.\u00a0In both articles some examples are given of how reading from paper and reading from a screen seem to be different experiences. Different parts of the brain apparently.\u00a0Seems to me that there is a lot of culture and expectation tied up in this.<\/p>\nI agree that paper is different, but as a older person I have come to find it intensely frustrating. It\u2019s heavy, it doesn\u2019t hyperlink, I can\u2019t search it, I can\u2019t copy-and-paste it. That means I have to give in to the author\u2019s preferences read all of their article, and only their article, and in the sequence they choose. I can\u2019t Google their key phrases to see who else has commented on this topic. I can\u2019t check their sources without using another device (or another piece of paper). Worst of all, if I want to make notes I can\u2019t just Evernote it and annotate – I have to start typing my own words from scratch.<\/p>\n
In my head I can hear a certain academic saying that these are all good things. Text should be on paper precisely to stop me doing all of these superficial things.\u00a0Should it?<\/p>\n
Paper is more individual and it may promote a more intense reading of a whole article or book without distraction. The thing is, that was never the way I read things. If I picked up a book at all, I always skimmed through it and went looking for other sources before I\u2019d finished it. If it was good I spoke to other people about it. I remember reading Catch 22 when I was about 17 and giving my copy to a friend to read when I\u2019d only got half way through. Mistake! I had to buy another copy.<\/p>\n
But actually, books were not my first choice. I always preferred short stories or articles. When I moved on to reading scientific stuff, I always looked at the abstract first and the conclusion\u00a0second. Then, if I was really impressed, I\u2019d check out the figures and then the references. Then I\u2019d be off looking for another article to get another view. Did I ever read paragraph three of the introduction? Not often.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why I say that it seems as if paper wasn\u2019t really invented with me in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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