Do eReaders Slow Down Reading?
Is reading print really faster than reading an eBook? According to the Nielsen Norman Group it is. The group recently did a test of usability on the iPad and the Kindle and found that reading speeds declined by 6.2% on the iPad and 10.7% on the Kindle compared to print.
But as CNN points out, the data is not significant. From CNN, “Nielsen conceded that the differences in reading speed between the two devices were not ‘statistically significant because of the data’s fairly high variability’ — in other words, the study did not prove that the iPad allowed for faster reading than the Kindle.”
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