Mnemonic medium

E-reading popularity sharply trails all book-reading

Mass adoption of written media with novel cognitive supports requires mass adoption of reading on computers

Taxonomy of note types

Backlit displays limit computers to interiors

2020-01-27

# Reading texts on computers is unpleasant

*   [[z6cxCDMXRWBritiSgzs4cdKd737H5U9XLBaFr:Continuous-scroll digital reading uncomfortably disrupts object permanence]]
*   [[z239u1Bav77BRcx7xyD49wF62wdvPY81S51Qv:Poor performance disrupts nonlinear reading in digital reading]]
*   [[z7ZNevNutwN3wT5hTRLUipssHBNbxUWSyDHrr:Maintaining multiple reading positions is difficult when reading digitally]]
*   [[z8KaXwxWaMdUbhKa3RC2zN8ZB36gfvWcoWmwR:Parallel reading is mostly impossible in digital reading]]
*   [[z7b7UyNrbU2chF5wehyKRvh3ABrFeHXiD5d4t:Backlit displays limit computers to interiors]]

This is an important problem because [[z4ANG1DVEjkbEwkhbeKtMYRGYbHGUW3mcc9aA:Mass adoption of written media with novel cognitive supports requires mass adoption of reading on computers]].




