A reading experiment: reading Little Dorrit in new and old formats

GO TO

HTMLhttp://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2009/06/bsw_20090629_1005.mp3

03 July 2009How do you read your books? As an audiobook, paperback or in a digital form?

Ann Kirschner decided to read the almost thousand-page Charles Dickens classic Little Dorrit in four ways: the traditional hardcopy, as an audiobook, using a Kindle and with an iPhone. She compares the reading experience and there's really only one loser. Guess which one it is.

Permanent URLhttp://apo.org.au/node/17612
Views633

Related Topics

Creative & Digital

Related content

Most viewed: This week

1
Research Associate/s needed for 1 year: Creative Workforce Program
2
Venture capital and later stage private equity, Australia, 2010-11
3
Without internet skills, older Australians will miss out on so much.
4
Teaching with social media in classroom settings: Top ten practices from teachers around Europe
5
Policy and Research Manager

Noticeboard

Copyright Law Inquiry
10 February 2012

The Attorney-General, the Hon Nicola Roxon MP, has announced the appointment of Professor Jill McKeough as Commissioner in charge of the ALRC’s Inquiry into Copyright Law.

Review of the Australia Council for the Arts
20 December 2011

Arts Minister Simon Crean has announced an independent review of the Australia Council for the Arts ahead of the development of the nation's first National Cultural Policy in almost 20 years.

Survey: Last chance to have your say on information technology and mental illness
15 December 2011

We live in a 'wired society'. But how much are people affected by mental illness included in this? Does social media increase isolation or help people overcome it?

Topics

APO