Reading Printed Material Is Better for Comprehension Than Digital Content: Study

People comprehend content they read via printed material better than what they read through digital media, according to a recent review of several studies. The analysis, published in Review of Educational Research magazine, looked at multiple studies between 2000 and 2022 involving 469,564 individuals, analyzing the relationship between leisure digital reading habits and reading comprehension. It concluded that “leisure digital reading does not seem to pay off in terms of reading comprehension, at least, as much as traditional print reading does.” The authors are Lidia Altamura, a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Reading Research Structure of the University of Valencia in Spain, and professors Cristina Vargas and Ladislao Salmerón....