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[quote=Anonymous]There is a tactile experience that reading actual books produces that makes it a much more immersive, sensory experience and studies show people retain more info when they read physical books versus that book on a screen.

Anecdotally, I have owned a Kindle for years and have felt like I never remembered the Kindle books well. It also didn’t feel satisfying to finish a digital book the way it did when I read a physical book. Our book club recently discussed this issue (a large group of big readers) and the sentiment was shared. Everyone felt that reading a physical book made it much easier to remember a story, then they felt that retention with an audiobook was slightly worse but still decent, and reading an e-book or Kindle was the least satisfying and hardest to remember. I switched back to reading paper books for myself recently as a test, and it’s amazing how much more enjoyable it is to read a real book - and how much better my memory of what I read is. My kindle is going to be collecting dust from now on. For kids, I would argue that real books are best. Mine get way too much screen time already at school as it is.

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