{"id":278916,"date":"2010-07-07T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T18:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/07\/07\/reading-at-the-speed-of-print\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:31:57","slug":"reading-at-the-speed-of-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/07\/07\/reading-at-the-speed-of-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading at the Speed of Print"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is interesting:<\/a><\/p>\n

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People can read traditional printed books a good bit faster than eBooks on tablet computers, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The study tested peoples’ pace of reading on two popular e-reader tablets \u2013 Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle 2 \u2013 as well as a standard PC monitor and a plain ol’ regular book.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The test used some Hemingway stories, which took on average more than 17 minutes to read. <\/p>\n

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To make sure people did not just skim the stories, the participants were given a reading comprehension tests afterward.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Overall, the study revealed that people read text 6.2 percent slower on an iPad than on the printed page. With the Kindle, reading was 10.7 percent slower.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Nielsen noted that this difference between the e-readers was not statistically significant, however, so in the end the only fair statement is that “tablets still haven’t beaten the printed book,” Nielsen wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is interesting: People can read traditional printed books a good bit faster than eBooks on tablet computers, a new study has found. The study tested peoples’ pace of reading on two popular e-reader tablets \u2013 Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle 2 \u2013 as well as a standard PC monitor and a plain ol’ regular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[14906,33716],"class_list":["post-278916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-future-of-reading","tag-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347936,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278916\/revisions\/347936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}