As most students agonize over the price of textbooks, they are still considered superior to learning, compared to the digital material that may be offered for free. As more educators push for their students to embrace the digital books for cost purposes, they neglect the fact that the material they are encouraging may be hindering a student’s education. Although, some may argue that digital material is more cost efficient for students, because students can download the books for free. They are forgetting about the purpose for books, and the impact physical learning material has on a student’s education. As a student, whom has tried both digital material and physical text, the cost of a text book is worth the price to pay for a higher comprehension of learning. After reading an interesting article titled, "Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading in Print,” the author, Michael Rosenwald shared some unexpected facts. He quotes a Naomi S. Baron, an American University linguist who studies digital communication, she states, “Readers tend to skim on screens, distraction is inevitable and comprehension suffers.”(Par 6). Thus, students are not reading all the information or material that needs to be read, and if they are only getting small amounts of required reading, then they are not learning everything …show more content…
Within the article, Konnikova mentions Mary Dyson, a psychologist at the University of reading. She has found that the layout of a text can have a significant effect on the reading experience. She says, “We read more quickly when lines are longer, but only to a point. When lines are too long, it becomes taxing to move your eyes from the end of one to the start of the next.” With the long lines and colors produced online, our eyes become tired and we don’t focus so much on what we are