These days, no one is diagnosed with ‘railway spine’, but we do get ‘iPad The trains did most certainly cause distress when theyįirst came along and so does new technology today. New inventions do make our lives easier in many ways, but they can also cause worries and ‘railway spine’ became a common diagnosis.
The Lancet published a landmark series ofĪrticles about the dangers of railway travel to public health in 1862, and at the same time In the early years of the railway, people were seriously concerned about how the speed (18 mph orģ0 kmph) would affect the human body. We would like to see developers make more user-friendly e-readers, and authors and publishers learn to fully utilize of the potential of the e-book. But even those who prefer to read on screens are originally native paper readers, and as long as the existing application interfaces cannot address the shortcomings of screens regarding spatial landmarks, we will keep returning to paper under certain circumstances. Habit and attitude appeared to be important, and a digitally born textbook is by far the best alternative to a print textbook when it comes to studying. We then considered these results in relation to our own experience of using tablets and teaching scholars and students how to use their tablets/smartphones in their work. We decided to find out what recent research had to say on the subject and read scholarly articles addressing the issues of the actual reading and/or learning processes involved in reading on screen compared to on paper.
Is this why students prefer to print out their electronic textbooks? We suspected it was habit and attitude rather than measurable cognitive effort during reading that made people prefer print texts, but we needed evidence. We have all seen the newspaper headlines: screens make us read slower, learn less deeply, remember less and sleep worse.
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