<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f849d6d1-b0d7-41b0-a4e4-66512738c097/117296B4-82ED-42AA-B088-1CC0F98D7760/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/" href="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/" style="font-size: 11px;">roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/"><P>Writing and reading — from newspapers to novels, academic reports to gossip magazines — are migrating ever faster to digital screens, like laptops, Kindles and cellphones. Traditional book publishers are putting out <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01book.html">“vooks,”</A> which place videos in electronic text that can be read online or on an iPhone. Others are republishing <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/books/14fried.html">old books in electronic form</A>. And libraries, responding to demand, are <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/books/15libraries.html?hp">offering more e-books </A>for download.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/"><P>Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading experience change, from retention to comprehension, depending on the medium? </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#alan">Alan Liu</A>, English professor</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#sandra">Sandra Aamodt,</A> author, “Welcome to Your Brain”</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#maryanne">Maryanne Wolf</A>, professor of child development</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#david">David Gelernter</A>, computer scientist</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#gloria">Gloria Mark,</A> professor of informatics</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/117296B4-82ED-42AA-B088-1CC0F98D7760/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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