Salon.com: Reading Comprehension Onscreen May Not Be As Deep


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Salon.com has a fabulous long-form article summarizing a series of studies about retention, comprehension, and memory as it relates to reading onscreen versus in print. I have long had a hunch that I read longform works faster — but with less retention — onscreen than I do in print, and the studies point in this direction as well.

It’s a must-read (and yes, I need to print it out to reread it deeply after doing a quick skim).

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