Recent research over whether paper beats e-book is actually doing something far more

interesting than telling us which medium is superior. The preferences people have for
one type of reading device can be rooted from human cognition or simply cultural.
Regardless of its respective benefits, electronic devices tend to promote more deep
reading due to the very lack of ability to do things like flick forward and flick back.
Meanwhile paper is better for active learning, when readers want to make notes or put
down the book to cross-reference. Either way much depends on what you are reading
and why. Whatever the case, simply being more aware of the alternatives might help
people get the best of reading.