Books are better?
| 09-May-2011 | Posted by Sonia Hamilton under comment, Learning |
I’ve noticed that most of the time I’m happy with ebooks/webpages for learning a new technology. But when it’s something difficult or something I really want to grok, I like to print things out or best of all buy a book (and then curl up on the couch and just read and annotate).
Maybe I’m not the only one – O’Reilly Radar has an article about a study that suggests university students learn better with paper books. (Let’s ignore the fact that O’Reilly are book publishers…).
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I find that reading is best done in the bath or bed so I definitely subscribe to printing out.
Yes the bath – an excellent place for studying. Also a cafe (without a computer) and the beach (ditto) :-)
I am now using my phone to read books. I have read 2 full books already and starting my third. I find it more convenient so far. I’m using FBreaderJ (for Android).