{"id":65920,"date":"2021-06-25T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=65920"},"modified":"2021-06-25T06:01:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T04:01:33","slug":"the-appeal-of-the-printed-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=65920","title":{"rendered":"The Appeal of the Printed Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The reliable recording format for professional and personal use. Tried and tested for 600 years. Opens in a millisecond. No electricity required. Totally independent of network connections. Protected from any sort of planned obsolescence. Extremely inexpensive. Still the best!<\/em> <\/p>\n

Printed books thrive in the digital age!<\/strong><\/p>\n

By North European BBT<\/strong><\/p>\n

The rise in popularity of printed books con\u00adtinues steadily. Since 2013, print unit sales worldwide are up 10.8%, reports the pub\u00adlishing industry. <\/p>\n

“The smart reading device of the future may be … paper,” states WIRED! magazine. “Re\u00adsearch finds that kids these days consis\u00adtently prefer their textbooks in print rather than pixels.” <\/p>\n

“Reading is human-\u00adtechnology interaction,” says literacy professor Anne Mangen of Nor\u00adway’s University of Stavanger. “Perhaps the tactility and physical permanence of paper yields a different cognitive and emotional experience.” This is especially true, she says, for “reading that can’t be done in snippets, scanning here and there, but requires sus\u00adtained attention.” <\/p>\n

“There’s nothing quite like the feel of a pa\u00adper book. There’s the sensation of weight in your hand as you make the slow, tactile progression through time and space flipping from page to page. A book will never run out of batteries or fail to load properly. A book has history and character. It activates all of your senses as well as your mind, and the experience of each physical book is different than any other. <\/p>\n

“Your brain is stimulated differently when you hold a book than when you hold an electronic device. We do so much on our devices these days – working, surfing, watching, listening, e\u00admailing, texting, chat\u00adting, posting, scrolling. In contrast, there’s a unique mental response that occurs when we pick up a printed book. It has one function: to convey information from the author to the reader. There is no multitask\u00ading inherent in a book – only learning and absorption.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"HareBy North European BBT<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reliable recording format for professional and personal use. Tried and tested for 600 years. Opens in a millisecond. No electricity required. Totally independent of network connections. Protected from any sort of planned obsolescence. Extremely inexpensive. Still the best! Printed books thrive in the digital age!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-distribution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90700,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65920\/revisions\/90700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}