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I think it's not only you.

I have the same problem with e-readers and books, I miss the ease of moving backward and forward in a paper book.

Also, I have observed that I remember better what I read in physical books. Maybe it's because the content is associated to something real out there in the world with a cover, a weight, and a position of the content in the book and a position of the book in my bookshelves.

It's kind of weird because the first intuition is that the support where you read something shouldn't matter.



i have the same experience. there is less retention when the object isn't permanent. that's another reason why i think it's important to keep notes as handwritten visually and not convert/OCR into typed text.




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