{"id":3384,"date":"2010-07-07T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:15:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T04:15:02","slug":"print-vs-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/reading\/print-vs-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Print vs iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a title=\"print vs electronic reading\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipadnewsdaily.com\/people-read-real-books-faster-than-e-books-on-the-ipad-and-the-kindle-0845\/\">a study by the Nielsen Norman Group<\/a> (whatever that is), people read the same Hemingway stories faster in print than on the iPad. Besides supposedly revealing that people read text 6.2 percent slower on an iPad than on the printed page, the study, based on a sample of 24 readers (not sure how that worked), also claimed reading on the Kindle was even slower than on the iPad &#8212; 10.7 percent slower than print, though the difference was &#8220;not statistically significant&#8221; (what difference is, with a sample of 24 people?).<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t sound like a very reliable study, but if what you care about in your reading is speed, it&#8217;s probably a good idea to stick with print &#8212; at least you will be a little less likely to take a break to check your e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study by the Nielsen Norman Group (whatever that is), people read the same Hemingway stories faster in print than on the iPad. Besides supposedly revealing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}