Not exact matches
Now take your
book which is no more
than toilet
paper in my
eyes and STFU.
But I'd be hard - pressed to tell you when I've had more
than two days in a row where I haven't had to stop a lesson because of one or two students who are bent on disrupting the entire class, where I've been able to start a class on time because every student was ready with
book,
paper, and pencil, or where I didn't have to stop my lesson repeatedly to tell different students throughout the period to please get their heads up and that it's hard to read along when their
eyes are closed.
In fact, reading
paper books puts much more strain on the body — for example, since the font size of
paper books is not adjustable, the reader may need to hold the
book closer or farther from the
eyes than what would be ergonomically optimal.
Spending gobs of time before emissive technology affects the
eyes differently
than reflective (printed
books /
paper) technology, so there's that.
With so much reading going on, it's possible that print
books are preferred for another completely practical reason: reading on screens tires out your
eyes much faster
than reading on
paper.
Third bias, reading a
book on a
paper - white e-reader screen is easier on the
eyes than a tablet screen.
When you read something on a piece of
paper or in a
book, your
eyes must move across and down the page from word to word, but when you use a computer, your phone or a tablet device, you often scroll words up to your viewpoint as your read, thus moving your
eyes a lot less
than you would if you were reading something on
paper.