[somatic]

There are studies showing that e-texts are significantly less “assimilable” than paper texts. I think the consensus speculation is that the physicality of the paper gives the brain a better understanding of the text, where you are in the text, and so on. Text on a screen, on the other hand, has an effectively infinite “depth”, among other things.

[commandlinefan]

I feel like I learn and retain more from printed books than e-books… but maybe that’s just because I’m an old man who learned to read decades before there was such a thing as an e-book?