Eight out of ten will read on paper – Ready Speech

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do you Like to scroll down a text on your phone? Or enjoying yourself with a book where you scroll from page to page?

Young as the reader will have long texts on paper. Not on the screen. It shows a survey made in Denmark.

77 per cent like to read novels, long articles or books on paper. Eight out of ten young people like to read texts in this way. It applies to people between 18 and 29 years of age.

Slightly fewer older people will also have paper. It says those who are 60 years old to 69 years old.

There are the Danish newspaper Politiken writes about the survey.

the Authorities in several countries have increasing number of documents on the screen. Several schools cut out the common textbooks.

They think that the young want to read on the screen, because they are grown up with it. But it is not so, ” says Kresten Bjerg. He is director of Bjerg Kommunikation.

the Brain has easier to concentrate on the information on the paper. It also has other investigations have shown, according to Bjerg.

the University of Stavanger has conducted research on the Norwegian 10.-graders. They understand more of the text when they are reading a book on paper than on a computer screen. It applies both to books and books who novels.

the Survey also shows that women are most fond of to read on paper. Also people who have a lot of education prefer to read that way.