# Reading texts on computers is unpleasant

> The real growth in the adoption of e-books will happen when the traditional book is deconstructed and reconstructed (textually, behaviorally and commercially) in order to create new paradigms for storing and delivering content in electronic forms. [Carden, 2008]

*   [[z9uM3R9kKGKfGowdMFWaSfH:::Continuous-scroll digital reading uncomfortably disrupts object permanence]]
*   [[zVx3t4nDyk9tyuWQiBzsSDT:::Poor performance disrupts nonlinear reading in digital reading]]
*   [[zJ4k4feCLspoCid7C4mzmvL:::Maintaining multiple reading positions is difficult when reading digitally]]
*   [[zBeBbzwU8LAyi2D5jqBJpS:::Parallel reading is mostly impossible in digital reading]]
*   [[zGsRWkonFv1KGAsWwiYA3he:::Few digital reading environments support marginal notes]]
*   [[zMHusNNzg8DveY5HJFbh1RU:::Digital annotation is too formal]]
*   [[zDN6nH4MHc78Tq6opuSaRmw:::Backlit displays limit computers to interiors]]

This is an important problem because [[zVBFE2LDCotxGFucwap8rRt:::Mass adoption of written media with novel cognitive supports requires mass adoption of reading on computers]] (or else we need [[z2vMujPz4bgD3BwtwbU9U9B:::Methods for bringing dynamic mediums to physical reading contexts]]).

Related but separate:

*   [[z9BbAQGiGNhty2SPHSwUzKM:::Deep focus comes more easily for me when developing ideas in a paper notebook, rather than with a computer]]

## References

Carden, M. T. J. (2008). E-Books are not books. Proceeding of the 2008 ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories - BooksOnline ’08, 9. <https://doi.org/10.1145/1458412.1458416>




