eReaders - you don't retain what you read?

[kimmer]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13...youve-read.html


It would be interesting to know if this is a generational thing, since past studies have always shown that a serif-font (like Times) was the best reading font for newspapers -- and the font with the best retention afterwards. Younger generations are not normally newspaper readers, so that's why I wonder if this applies to all generations or just the younger generations.

Tthis statement -- mainly the portion I bolded -- has given me the beginnings of a nightmare:

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'Disfluent fonts, the ones people tend to laugh off, fonts that are comically ugly, they tend to be the best for learning and for memory.'

I now have this image of good books being published in that hideous Comic Sans font and I'll be forced to forever re-read what I already own.

[Xairbusdriver]

STOP KNOCKING comic sans!

<The sad, sad, story of cynical, elitists kicking a poor little font...and the suffering caused by such behavior!>

[dboh]

Maybe you retain more because your brain has to work harder to puzzle out those ridiculous letter shapes, thereby burning it into your brain cells in the process?

[kimmer]

QUOTE(dboh @ Jan 18 2011, 04:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Maybe you retain more because your brain has to work harder to puzzle out those ridiculous letter shapes, thereby burning it into your brain cells in the process?

That was one of the conclusions of the study. I think they're all wet.

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Jan 18 2011, 01:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

STOP KNOCKING [font="Comic Sans MS"]comic sans!

I read that thread and meant to comment and then forgot. Maybe if it had all been composed in Comic Sans I would have remembered?

[Xairbusdriver]

I'll try and remember that, next time. BTW, it appears that you have trouble formatting a post with using the TS Forum software. I'll be happy to guide you through that process, if you'd like?

[kimmer]

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Jan 18 2011, 07:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

BTW, it appears that you have trouble formatting a post...

I was simply blinded by all those ugly ... err ... weird ... err ... red, yes red letters when I edited the quote that I lost my way.

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I'll be happy to guide you through that process, if you'd like?

ABD, you're such a gentleman. Many thanks.

[Xairbusdriver]

Clarify will get you nowhere! Warm cookies, OTOH...

I am seldOm called a gentleman, most of the time, those rooms for me are simply labeled "Men." But I do try! And so far, a lot of people have noticed, since they often say I am very trying! So I will add your name to the list! Thanks!