Experts Say eBooks Reading May Result in Weak Memory

Posted by lee l.
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Jul 10, 2012
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I believe many people have had such an experience: if you are reading the article on a handheld devices, you easily forget the story of the role every one or two chapters, but if you are reading a paper book, you won’t have this feeling. So why? The memory will be worse if you are reading ebooks for a long time?
With the development of science and technology, the handled e-book devices such as mobile phones, tablets become thinner and lighter, and are easier to carry, and thus the reading of e-books become more popular. And with the popularity of e-books, those kinds of e-book converters are become popular too, such as PDF to ePub converter for Mac. However, in improving your memory area, advanced e-book can’t be compared with a traditional paper book, to the contrary, it may cause damage to human memory.

Times published an article, Neuroscience Maya • Sarah Horowitz issued a challenge for reading on mobile phones, tablet PCs, pointed out that the handheld device to read e-books, may lead to memory abilities are weakened.
Maya found on the Tablet PC to read the article, every one or two chapters will easily forget the name of the story of the role of reading paper books, newspapers do not have this kind of problem. Then she looked up some information, I learned the original Google founders Larry Page also expressed concern about the screen to read than paper reading speed was significantly slower in
Japanese a president has said in recent years, 25 years old -35 years old young man suffering from amnesia, more and more patients with the majority of small to play the younger generation of electronic games, computers, mobile phones and other technology products.
Reading e-books easily cause forgetfulness.
The study found that people read a paper book content "understand" faster, read an eBook you need more time and re-read to "remember".
Experts say when you want to recall something, there are two possible methods, first, you only remember it, you also need a series of thinking to "know" things; second you have completely "understand "it. Obviously, the latter have a greater advantage. The expert added: "reading a paper book on the content of 'know' faster, people often read e-books need a longer time and more repetition of reading in order to reach the realm of 'know how'."

"Know" and "remember" is very different.
Segment near the header or near the footer on the left page or on the right page, the next rate picture, and these seemingly unrelated elements actually read the memory of great help. Often read e-books are the lack of these elements, and operation can easily distract readers. Moreover, sometime when you want to read an e-book on a device, you have to look for
PDF converter free software, which is so annoying.
The experts pointed out that the small screens of handheld devices to read books, let read more difficult to remember, such as mobile phone users suffer a variety of e-books have seen forget.
In the evolutionary process shaping the pairs space there is a strong sensitivity to the context of relationships and iconic things help the reader towards the "know how" knowledge "remember" knowledge. Segment is close to the header or near the footer is the page on the left or right side of the page next to the rate picture, these seemingly unrelated elements actually read the memory of great help.
However, often read e-books and no space flag for reference, especially those to scroll the page for the presentation of e-books, they never tell you the page number, only the percentage of the book you read accounts. So one that is, the book reads really big head.
Another weakness of e-book is that it is easy to distract readers, especially search, rewind and skip the page and reading all kinds of trouble operating. What’s more, if the e-book is in PDF format, you will feel vexed at the fact that you can’t even edit PDF on Mac! Not to mention a variety of game software on the equipment.
This is not meaning you should abandon e-books and return to paper books. On the contrary, experts believe, a different carrier's books are suitable for different occasions. Read e-books or read a paper book, experts provide an important criteria: When you would like to study, remember to use a paper book.

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