The article “The Brain Prefers Paper”, as read from Scientific American, is very descriptive in the way it describes the difference in physical books and ebooks such as flipping pages, comprehension of what people read, and the benefits of both.
When it comes to flipping pages in actual books, you get the sensation of actually getting ahead in the book. You can look at the pages you have read and how much longer you have. You can bend the pages and see it as “footprints”. However in ebooks, you do not get that sensation. You lose your “footprints”. The article describes it as going on a hike but having no idea what is in front or behind you. You have a scroll bar or a progress bar for a book but it does not show the physical pages you have, nor change weight distribution like physical book do.
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It also helps that when reading a physical book you actually learn what you are reading and know it, not just remember it. In ebooks though, you only remember things and not many at that. The screens also cause eye strain and make the reader tired, having them remember less things than they would. The article describes it in the way that clicking through and scrolling takes up to much time compared to just flipping the page. It makes it difficult for readers to be able to go back a chapter if they need to and to go right back to where they were in their