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Is it true that when you flip through the pages you feel like you have some connection to the story or something like that I just forgot I think one guy mentioned why paper books are better than e-books or audio books.

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[โ€“] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What people probably think of is a study that tested how much content people remembered based on whether they read on paper or on screen. On paper, the fixed organisation of text helps with memorising it. It is already well-known that when reading a list you'll remember the first and the last point better than something in the middle, and text on paper also seems to form this sort of a "grid" that you can map the ideas upon. It's also easier to orient yourself where you are in a book, as you have the physical thickness of the pages under your fingers rather than the relatively abstract percentage number in the corner or something.

But overall, the difference probably isn't something drastic. Certainly nothing to do with "connection to the story", that's not something that can be measured... maybe someone subjectively feels like that, IDK.

Audiobooks are probably quite a different experience, though.

[โ€“] zeca@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Never thought about that but i totally agree, we remember the shape and location of a paragraph associated with its content, and it definetly helps when trying to read some dense text.