I have a story about Sarah Michelle Gellar, the actress who played Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She wanted to tour the Ontario Science Centre - a magnificent modern museum type edifice that sees thousands of people touring each day. She demanded that the Centre be vacated by the whole public so she could have a private viewing. The Centre told her to go to hell. I know it's true because my ex-wife was an executive staff member there at the time.
Oh, do I know about "reaching". Here's my story. I used to spend Sunday mornings having coffee with an elderly cousin of my ex-wife, and I would pick up a couple of coffees and drive to his office where he was. One time I had a couple of coffees stuck in a kind of cardboard holder on the seat next to me. I was crossing a couple of railroad tracks on a curve and noticed the coffee starting to fall over so I looked and reached over to grab them, but while doing so I inadvertently turned the wheel and the car ended up on a railroad track bumpity-bumping on the ties with my car's wheels straddling the tracks. It destroyed the underside of the car which was then considered a write-off. So much for "reaching".
I can't open anything posted directly from Facebook, John. You would have to save it to your picture library and then embed it from there to your comment, or copy and paste it from your picture library.
A lot of people are shocked when they see I have actual books around my house and we actually read them! :D Oh, and that we all have library cards and use them.
I used to have a great library before I left Canada, some antique books, and even including an annually updated Encyclopedia Britainnica, Before I left I gave the ones he wanted to my son, then sold the valuable remaining ones at garage sales and gave the remainders to the psychiatric ward of the local hospital. Now I have as many books on the ereader that was loaded by an old friend and sent to me. I still haven't read all of them, but I've read the Grisham novels twice.
Nothing beats an actual paper book in my opinion. That's why I bought my $90 American History book for my college course. I used the e-reader version for quoting in my papers, but I like actual books. I also wanted that text book because I found it to be far more accurate accounts of history than some of the stuff they had when I was in High School. The Am. Hist. book from my college course explains Lief Eriksson and his journey to modern day Canada and the likely reason there's been DNA found from "Viking" country in Native People. It also tells of the brutal stories like how French Jesuit Priests gave Small Pox blankets to Natives when they refused to convert to Christianity just to name one of the many horrible things in our history.
I bought a book from our local library [helps support their collection and wages / other needs] about our local history as known through documentation of our ancestors; some of mine included. I live in Southeast Michigan and my family has been here for SO LONG! Long before Michigan was a state (1837); heck, longer than the US was the US (1776). My family came down the St. Lawrence River to what's now the Detroit River in 1701 on the ship with Antoine Cadillac... at least my mom's side did. My dad's family was in the UP of MI as early as 1718 as maple syrup farmers and fur traders. However, both sides resided along the St. Lawrence as early as 1556. Anyways... I got sidetracked. Sorry. It's really interesting to see some ancestor's names in a local history book. That's how I learned that my family fought along side Pontiac and was in alliance with Tecumseh.
Wow, Ms Aubrey! You have a fascinating history! And I thought my family was here a long time (about 1756 or so). My family never ventured any further west than the Allegheny River.
I've found a great book site where I can buy used paperbacks for cheap and it's not Amazon. It's called Thrift Books and I need to go buy some more Allison Weir historical Tudor novels.
A year ago I posted this article on the Books group:
Is Print Reading Better Than Digital Reading?
We Read Each Medium Differently, And That Affects Comprehension.
By CORY ROSENBERG, Mother Nature Network, April 17, 2019,
Reading text in a digital format isn't always the best way to get all the information from a story. (Photo: smokingapples.com /Flickr)
Nowadays, we all read a lot of text digitally — whether it's a book on a tablet or the latest news. It's an unavoidable part of our technology-driven society. There are different processes and behaviors that go into reading on screens as opposed to print, and these processes could have some significant implications for reading comprehension.
In a 2005 study by Ziming Liu of San Jose State University, Liu found that when we read digitally, we do more scanning and jumping around — looking for keywords to get as much information as possible in a short amount of time. In certain ways, digital reading is a less immersive experience than reading printed words.
Scanning text is a nonlinear form of reading, Liu explains. When doing linear reading, without any skipping or jumping, we're engaged in deep reading. Deep reading allows for more immersion, as opposed to nonlinear reading. In fact, it's understandable that nonlinear reading may have an effect on comprehension. It's the difference between taking in the landscape from the window of a speeding car instead of taking a slow walk along the same route.
Charting A Course Through A Story
As reported in Scientific American, Anne Mangen of the University of Stavenger in Norway found a digital text can be an inferior "map" compared to a printed book . Mangen thinks the tactility of a book plays a big role in the way we map out the terrain of the text, giving us a chance to really know and feel comfortable in our textual environment (linear reading) as opposed to just wandering about (nonlinear reading).
Mangen asked 72 10th-graders, who all possessed the same reading abilities, to study one narrative text and one expository text. Half the students read the texts in print, while the other half read the texts in PDF format on a 15-inch LCD screen. After studying the texts, the students were asked to take reading comprehension tests that consisted of short answer and multiple-choice questions, while using the text as an aid. The results showed a discrepancy between the test scores: Those who read the digital version of the text didn't perform as well as those who read the print versions.
In a 2014 joint study , Mangen teamed up with Nice-Sophia Antipolis University and Aix-Marseille University and had 50 adults read a 28-page mystery story. Some read the story in print while others read it digitally. Those who read the digital text had a more difficult time putting the plot events in chronological order, the study found.
Further research emphasizes that point. Virginia Clinton of the University of North Dakota, investigated 33 previous studies that looked at print vs. digital reading, and found that paper readers were more efficient and had a better understanding of what they had read. Interestingly, this was only true of explanatory text and didn’t apply to narrative text, which appeared to even the odds of comprehension. Her 2019 meta-analysis was published in the Journal of Research in Reading .
Why We Read Differently On Paper Vs. A Screen
Studies have shown that we retain and understand better when we read material in print. (Photo: Atstock Productions/Shutterstock)
Mangen told Scientific American she thinks the discrepancies between comprehension could be due to the navigability of electronic texts. A book offers a more compartmentalized way of moving through the text; in the digital atmosphere, it's harder to put things into place. We can pick up a book and flip through it easily, whereas digital texts require lots of scrolling and clicking, and there aren't many indicators as to what sections you might be searching for. The physicality of the book lets your hands act as a bookmark to help you keep track. A physical book allows you to leave a trail of breadcrumbs so to speak — making sure you comprehend your surroundings and can retrace your steps.
This difficulty of mapping digital texts might also make a reader more vexed and stressed. According to Mangen, the stress related to being a little lost in the digital woods might make for weaker comprehension skills due to the demanding mental efforts required to figure out where you are.
None of these studies make claims that digital reading is bad for your brain; it's just a different process. In an age when digital technology is pervasive, sticking purely to print isn't the right answer. Learning how to balance nonlinear reading with deep reading could be a helpful exercise in maintaining our ability to read certain texts more closely.
Editor's note: This story has been updated with new information since its publication in July 2016.
These were sent to me in an email by my brother. So taking into consideration the reality of today...
I like your brother.
He sends me lots of great stuff.
Me, too
Now I have in my brain, Turn The Page by Bob Seger.
There is an account I watch on Instagram. He is on Youtube as well, he reviews books.
Though his affinity for Buffy The Vampire Slayer is kind of a turn off.
I have a story about Sarah Michelle Gellar, the actress who played Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She wanted to tour the Ontario Science Centre - a magnificent modern museum type edifice that sees thousands of people touring each day. She demanded that the Centre be vacated by the whole public so she could have a private viewing. The Centre told her to go to hell. I know it's true because my ex-wife was an executive staff member there at the time.
Aww. Her and Freddie Prince JR seemed so down to earth.
That is a shame.
Guess one never knows...
When I was a kid, my best friends Mom use to drive with a book on propped in the middle of the steering wheel.
I kid you not, she would drive and read.
As dangerous for not only herself but everyone on the road - as bad at least as texting while driving.
No kidding. But we didn't even have to wear seat belts back then.
Funny though, she never got in a wreck. We did catch her swerving from time to time.
Somehow she kept it together.
Oddly though, I was in wreck with her son and he was only reaching for a Kleenex.
Took after his Dad.
Oh, do I know about "reaching". Here's my story. I used to spend Sunday mornings having coffee with an elderly cousin of my ex-wife, and I would pick up a couple of coffees and drive to his office where he was. One time I had a couple of coffees stuck in a kind of cardboard holder on the seat next to me. I was crossing a couple of railroad tracks on a curve and noticed the coffee starting to fall over so I looked and reached over to grab them, but while doing so I inadvertently turned the wheel and the car ended up on a railroad track bumpity-bumping on the ties with my car's wheels straddling the tracks. It destroyed the underside of the car which was then considered a write-off. So much for "reaching".
I saw this on one of my cousins facebook page
I can't open anything posted directly from Facebook, John. You would have to save it to your picture library and then embed it from there to your comment, or copy and paste it from your picture library.
LOL.. That is fantastic!!!
By the way, how did you get the picture to work?
I saved it and posted here using the "embed local media" button.
The first time i just copied and pasted it from facebook.
Thanks. That makes all the difference.
That is so CLEVER!!!!
I knew I should have been a librarian!
A lot of people are shocked when they see I have actual books around my house and we actually read them! :D Oh, and that we all have library cards and use them.
I recently went on vacation and only took 2 books...I should have taken the whole Game of Thrones with me
After my husband died, I donated almost 30 large boxes of books to different hospitals. That man had my house looking like a branch library.
I used to have a great library before I left Canada, some antique books, and even including an annually updated Encyclopedia Britainnica, Before I left I gave the ones he wanted to my son, then sold the valuable remaining ones at garage sales and gave the remainders to the psychiatric ward of the local hospital. Now I have as many books on the ereader that was loaded by an old friend and sent to me. I still haven't read all of them, but I've read the Grisham novels twice.
How do you all like to read your books? Do you like the hefty tome in your hands or do you prefer an e-reader?
I was using an e-reader but it's hard to see in the sun. Now I prefer hard copy books, preferably the trade paperbacks
Nothing beats an actual paper book in my opinion. That's why I bought my $90 American History book for my college course. I used the e-reader version for quoting in my papers, but I like actual books. I also wanted that text book because I found it to be far more accurate accounts of history than some of the stuff they had when I was in High School. The Am. Hist. book from my college course explains Lief Eriksson and his journey to modern day Canada and the likely reason there's been DNA found from "Viking" country in Native People. It also tells of the brutal stories like how French Jesuit Priests gave Small Pox blankets to Natives when they refused to convert to Christianity just to name one of the many horrible things in our history.
I bought a book from our local library [helps support their collection and wages / other needs] about our local history as known through documentation of our ancestors; some of mine included.
I live in Southeast Michigan and my family has been here for SO LONG! Long before Michigan was a state (1837); heck, longer than the US was the US (1776). My family came down the St. Lawrence River to what's now the Detroit River in 1701 on the ship with Antoine Cadillac... at least my mom's side did. My dad's family was in the UP of MI as early as 1718 as maple syrup farmers and fur traders. However, both sides resided along the St. Lawrence as early as 1556. Anyways... I got sidetracked. Sorry. It's really interesting to see some ancestor's names in a local history book. That's how I learned that my family fought along side Pontiac and was in alliance with Tecumseh.
Wow, Ms Aubrey! You have a fascinating history! And I thought my family was here a long time (about 1756 or so). My family never ventured any further west than the Allegheny River.
I've found a great book site where I can buy used paperbacks for cheap and it's not Amazon. It's called Thrift Books and I need to go buy some more Allison Weir historical Tudor novels.
A year ago I posted this article on the Books group:
Is Print Reading Better Than Digital Reading?
We Read Each Medium Differently, And That Affects Comprehension.
By CORY ROSENBERG, Mother Nature Network, April 17, 2019,
Reading text in a digital format isn't always the best way to get all the information from a story. (Photo: smokingapples.com /Flickr)
Nowadays, we all read a lot of text digitally — whether it's a book on a tablet or the latest news. It's an unavoidable part of our technology-driven society. There are different processes and behaviors that go into reading on screens as opposed to print, and these processes could have some significant implications for reading comprehension.
In a 2005 study by Ziming Liu of San Jose State University, Liu found that when we read digitally, we do more scanning and jumping around — looking for keywords to get as much information as possible in a short amount of time. In certain ways, digital reading is a less immersive experience than reading printed words.
Charting A Course Through A Story
As reported in Scientific American, Anne Mangen of the University of Stavenger in Norway found a digital text can be an inferior "map" compared to a printed book . Mangen thinks the tactility of a book plays a big role in the way we map out the terrain of the text, giving us a chance to really know and feel comfortable in our textual environment (linear reading) as opposed to just wandering about (nonlinear reading).
Mangen asked 72 10th-graders, who all possessed the same reading abilities, to study one narrative text and one expository text. Half the students read the texts in print, while the other half read the texts in PDF format on a 15-inch LCD screen. After studying the texts, the students were asked to take reading comprehension tests that consisted of short answer and multiple-choice questions, while using the text as an aid. The results showed a discrepancy between the test scores: Those who read the digital version of the text didn't perform as well as those who read the print versions.
In a 2014 joint study , Mangen teamed up with Nice-Sophia Antipolis University and Aix-Marseille University and had 50 adults read a 28-page mystery story. Some read the story in print while others read it digitally. Those who read the digital text had a more difficult time putting the plot events in chronological order, the study found.
Further research emphasizes that point. Virginia Clinton of the University of North Dakota, investigated 33 previous studies that looked at print vs. digital reading, and found that paper readers were more efficient and had a better understanding of what they had read. Interestingly, this was only true of explanatory text and didn’t apply to narrative text, which appeared to even the odds of comprehension. Her 2019 meta-analysis was published in the Journal of Research in Reading .
Why We Read Differently On Paper Vs. A Screen
Studies have shown that we retain and understand better when we read material in print. (Photo: Atstock Productions/Shutterstock)
Mangen told Scientific American she thinks the discrepancies between comprehension could be due to the navigability of electronic texts. A book offers a more compartmentalized way of moving through the text; in the digital atmosphere, it's harder to put things into place. We can pick up a book and flip through it easily, whereas digital texts require lots of scrolling and clicking, and there aren't many indicators as to what sections you might be searching for. The physicality of the book lets your hands act as a bookmark to help you keep track. A physical book allows you to leave a trail of breadcrumbs so to speak — making sure you comprehend your surroundings and can retrace your steps.
This difficulty of mapping digital texts might also make a reader more vexed and stressed. According to Mangen, the stress related to being a little lost in the digital woods might make for weaker comprehension skills due to the demanding mental efforts required to figure out where you are.
None of these studies make claims that digital reading is bad for your brain; it's just a different process. In an age when digital technology is pervasive, sticking purely to print isn't the right answer. Learning how to balance nonlinear reading with deep reading could be a helpful exercise in maintaining our ability to read certain texts more closely.
Editor's note: This story has been updated with new information since its publication in July 2016.