http://www.scoop.it/t/the-history-and-future-of-reading/p/1554377933/sparknotes-comes-to-android-makes-studying-literature-a-little-bit-less-boring’ Back in 1999, a site called The Spark that aimed to help its users better understand literature hit the internet.
PEW research has found – “Readers of e-books like to read in all formats, they favor print books for sharing and to read to children, and on average they read more books over all than print-only readers do.” – http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/rise-in-e-book-readership-good-news-for-reading-over-all-report-says/35955′
Fascinating information on how neuroscience sees our reading - http://printontheperiphery.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/why-reading-feeds-our-brain/
Now you can know why some e-books cost more than their paperback versions!
March 6, 2012
“Reading in the digital world has both similarities and differences from reading on paper. Books as tangible objects elicit powerful responses linked to the pleasures felt in reading them. Although our eyes scan differently when reading online, reading e-versions of books initially seems similar to reading on paper. However digital books [...]
My Samsung Galaxy Tab Home Screen
Does it make me disloyal to my love for Apple? I love my MacBook Air, but I bought myself a Samsung Galaxy Tab. My friends say I’m betraying Mac, but here’s what I said to them:
Well I do feel a little disloyal, but [...]
I like to play on the web, and my biggest problem is my “I-can’t-catch-up” anxiety. There is always more to explore. And for free, either for the basic version or for a month. I can never try everything out. I can’t catch up. Ever.
I make things even more intense by following people who suggest [...]
An autodidact is someone who learns outside of regular school settings, someone who teaches herself (or himself). It used to be a kind of demeaning label, meaning someone who had spotty and uncertified knowledge. I claim the label “autodidact” as a badge of honour! I used to learn from books, even sometimes from tv, but [...]
We are living in confusing times because we are living through the biggest change in human communications since the printing press, maybe the biggest change ever. You can see this in the small changes that happen as we leave an old technology for a new. It is clear that newspapers and magazines, even tv, are [...]
People decide about what to read, on paper or on the web, before they de-code a single word. If the page looks dense and/or difficult, readers, unless they are highly motivated, will just move on. When people learn to write or to create a web page, they should, IMHO, learn about readability as the same [...]
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