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A question about memory and learning from electronic versus paper sources?

In school, I learned from paper books and texts. I have therefore a good visual memory when it comes to paper books. I recently wanted to learn for driving test from an electronic text and I couldn't (the interactive online quiz helped me lots though). It was more comfortable for me to read the driving rules from a paper handbook. While theoretically, I can read an electronic book, I highly prefer the traditional text.

So how can you compare the learning from a paper text versus an electronic text? It may be a required ability to be able to learn by looking to the computer screen, but for me that is difficult.
what about you? Do you find easy/comfortable to read /learn from an electronic text?

Yea I had similar experience as you. I first started trying ebooks about 7, 8 years ago. For some reason it was hard for me to remember or use the information I read from those ebooks. I would read the ebook a page at a time, zoom in/out, pan here, pan there, and then hand write my own notes on paper. I also felt somewhat limited I couldn't physically turn the pages, jump to certain tagged pages, make high lights, make notes at the side of pages etc. which I used to be able to do on a physical book.

Anyway time went on, too many books to carry, too much travel to do. I eventually was forced to keep most of my books in electronic format on a little laptop. Somehow a few years later I eventually got used to reading ebooks and actually able to remember/use the information read.

Overall if given the choice, I still enjoy paper books more.

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