Up: [[Thinking]] Created: 2023-06-17 Reading from a screen trains us to read differently. Instead of the linear reading we do in books, one page to the next, screen reading involves jumping from one page or bit to some other. Anne Mangen, a professor of literacy at a university in Norway, has done twenty years of research on these differences. She found that the way we read screens has transferred to the way we read books. A metaphorical comparison is that reading on screen is like dashing around a supermarket, grabbing what you need and getting out of there, while reading a book is taking time in the supermarket to carefully select the freshest tomatoes and the air-chilled chicken. There are a couple of articles. The simpler one is from [Brain Facts](https://www.brainfacts.org/neuroscience-in-society/tech-and-the-brain/2020/reading-on-paper-versus-screens-whats-the-difference-072820#:~:text=TL%3BDR%3A%20Digital%20Reading%20Equals%20Shallower%20Processing&text=Digital%20reading%20impairs%20comprehension%2C%20particularly,more%20rapidly%20and%20less%20thoroughly.) A research paper by Mangen is in [Science Direct](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0883035512001127)