Effects of Operability on Reading
In the previous chapter, we saw that the display characteristics of different media, which was the first factor affecting the difficulty of reading from computer displays, did not significantly affect reading performance, except for some indicators relate
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Why Digital Displays Cannot Replace Paper The Cognitive Science of Media for Reading and Writing
Why Digital Displays Cannot Replace Paper
Hirohito Shibata • Kengo Omura
Why Digital Displays Cannot Replace Paper The Cognitive Science of Media for Reading and Writing
Hirohito Shibata Fuculty of Social Information Gunma University Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Kengo Omura Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
ISBN 978-981-15-9475-5 ISBN 978-981-15-9476-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9476-2
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Foreword
Will screens ever replace paper in the workplace, in schools and institutions of higher learning, or for leisure reading? More than twenty years ago, the first purposebuilt e-book readers were introduced to a skeptical marketplace. The early devices were heavy, hard to hold, had limited battery life and poor screen resolution, and were subject to unwelcome new phenomena like glare and inflexible digital rights management. Publishers offered a limited range of material to readers, and libraries struggled with the practical problems of lending e-books to their patrons. In short, e-books were clunky and cumbersome: in spite of developers’ promises, e-books did not give print books and paper documents serious competition. As the years passed, more and more core technologies fell into place. Although Microsoft had introduced a tablet computer five years earlier (a device that met with little fanfare), in 2007, Amazon sold its first Kindle, and in 2010, Apple its first iPad. I got my hands on an iPad right after it became available for sale. I was impressed by the iPad
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