SSS 2012-03-29

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Kindles², Nooks and other e-readers catch flack for threatening the future of printed books. But reading itself may get a boost from the devices. For example, a study of struggling students found that the kids felt better about reading after a course in which they used Amazon Kindles. The research is in the International Journal of Applied³ Science and Technology. 

 

For two months, 199 middle-schoolers in a reading improvement class in Texas had 15 to 25 minutes every day when they were free to read on the Kindle¹. In general, the students felt the device improved their reading ability. And they tended to enjoy using an e-reader.

 

They noted⁴ the ease of carrying multiple books in one device, and the feeling that reading was suddenly a high-tech⁵ 21st-century activity rather than a boring waste of time. And some low-level readers who might otherwise be embarrassed to be seen with a simple book liked keeping their peers in the dark about what title they were reading. In the old days, one had to use a fake book-cover to achieve that level of secrecy⁶.

 

Thanks for the minute, for Scientific Americans, I am Sophie Bushwick。

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