Kevin O'Keefe came across a recent study which indicates that older readers needed less brain activity when reading on
a tablet than on paper or e-Readers.
Not exact matches
And people who read it
on their
tablet are spending 20 % more time
than if they're reading the
paper.
For example, he insisted it enables volunteers to enter voter information they collect
on door steps
on tablets rather
than with
paper.
For example, a
tablet may be a more effective tool to foster children's letter shaping... Alternatively, reading a
paper - printed storybook may be better at fostering aspects of emergent literacy
than reading an e-book
on a
tablet due to an app's distracting features.»
In the year ending in January 2012, the American Association of Publishers reported that e-book sales had risen more
than 49.4 % in the adult books category, 475.1 % in the children's and young adult category, and 150.7 % in the religious publications category.5 We at the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reported that ownership of e-book readers among adults age 18 and older had nearly doubled from 10 % of the population to 19 % over the holiday gift - giving season at the end of 2011, and ownership of
tablet computers had surged a similar amount.6 In the final week of 2011 the e-book version of 42 of the top - selling 50 books
on USA Today's best - seller book list was outselling the
paper version of the same book.7
Working, whether it's
on a presentation for your boss or a
paper for your professor, is very different
on a
tablet than it is
on a more conventional computer.
The
tablet felt noticeably lighter
than the Nook Color, even though the difference
on paper — 1.7 oz.
Third bias, reading a book
on a
paper - white e-reader screen is easier
on the eyes
than a
tablet screen.
Despite, and perhaps because of, the iPad's nearly uncontested dominance in global
tablet sales, Google is cramming the Nexus 7 with features that, at least
on paper, give the
tablet markedly better performance
than the iPad Mini, and pretty much every other small
tablet on the market.
This was all the info we managed to gather about the 110w, which seems to be one of the best (
on paper) Windows 7
tablets in terms of power management, but offering less performance
than other slates.
If there is a problem, it would just be that taking notes
on a
tablet is actually a little slower
than pen and
paper.
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.
Typing
papers on a
tablet screen is even less comfortable
than on a phone (I know, I've tried it).
On paper, the Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro features quite an impressive camera package, with its 13 MP rear camera and 5 MP front - facing camera, which seems to be better
than what is available with most
tablets out there.