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Like so many research results, these seem to make perfect sense. Many of us have probably noticed, at least subconsciously, that our eyes and our attention jump around much more when we read on a screen than when we read from a paper source. So what?, I can just hear someone I know who reads all his magazines online asking rhetorically. Sew buttons on your underwear. (Sorry ~ a response I learned as a child that now comes automatically!) Well, apparently, we use different parts of our brain for each of those activities. One is non-linear reading, and the other is deep reading. I'll leave it to you to guess which is which. The point is that, like so many things, if you don't use the deep-reading part, you're in danger of losing it ~ and chances are you'll miss it when it's gone (story, link to audio of original interview): http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-18/your-paper-brain-and-your-kindle-brain-arent-same-thing
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