Title editorialized because the second half (of the title) is unnecessary bullshit
It's weird to compare Internet readings to print readings. The study should be done between e-books tablets such as the Kindle, Nook, Kobo and print version of a book. As for myself, I like both. I tend to prefer e-books because I find it more convenient. I can get the definition of a word I don't understand, I can highligh paragraphs easily, the battery is amazing and in the long term, it's cost-efficient.
I love my kindle, but I still love a good print book. I can write in a print book, I can flip through pages and quickly recognize what I'm looking for. Print books really do smell nice too. But I like reading for pleasure on my kindle, it's much more convenient, there's a built-in backlight so I don't have to worry about a light source or I can lay in bed with the lights off and still read until I fall asleep. There's advantages and disadvantages to both.
I strongly prefer reading in print when possible as well, doubly so for books and longform content. But - looked at from one angle - the printing press has been around for over 500 years. That's half a millennium of refining the look and feel of books and paper to specifically cater to human preferences. Devices made for reading ebooks have been around for like 10 years(?). They've been somewhat commonplace for half of that. E-ink devices and regular tablets are only going to continue getting more comfortable to hold, easier on the eyes, and better at filtering out reading distractions (when in reading mode).
I don't. I prefer my kindle for books, and my 10" tablet for graphics novels. The only thing I can't use digitally are textbooks. I need to be able to switch back and forth between reference pages quickly. I can't do that with any ebook platform yet. Someone needs to invent a better bookmark system. Plus, the kindle app's zoom feature is terrible. This seems odd to me. I skim articles on the internet, for entirely different reasons. But I don't skim my kindle any more than physical books. I still do this on a kindle. Though more page location, less book location, for obvious reasons. It frustrates me when I go back to find something, and its location on the page has changed from a layout reflow. They should fix that. Er, no. I just described the opposite problem. Technically copying textbooks for education is covered by the Fair Use Doctrine (17 US Code ยง 107), though a judge is likely to dismiss the claim, because Fair Use has been progressively weakened by the corporatocracy. Also, we live in a society where knowledge can be "owned" and hoarded. Apparently I'm the only one bothered by this. After finding her selection bias, really.Readers tend to skim on screens
Researchers say readers remember the location of information simply by page and text layout
They prefer them for classes in which locating information quickly is key
They become knowledge thieves.
But after learning what millennials truly think about print
I much prefer print books to ebooks for pleasure reading. I find that I'm less distracted and therefore can be more absorbed in what I'm reading. That said, I do like reading things online for class so that I can search it. Also, books don't run out of battery. :)
e-ink readers last a month on a single charge. But then again, there's a huge difference between a tablet for reading and an e-ink tablet. E-ink tablets lack all of those fancy facebook bells and whistles. They're kind of in their own category.