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I thought I agreed (and even disabled said progress bar a couple weeks ago). However, the research suggests that there's a counter-productive degree of "distraction free" and that some eReader interfaces pass that threshold.

As a side note: I know that my expectations for a book change depending on my current position. I notice this every time I think I have a large amount of the story left, only to find myself unpleasantly surprised when it ends "abruptly" and that the next half is actually another story bundled with the first in a single file.




> the research suggests that there's a counter-productive degree of "distraction free"

Very interesting. What research? What does it say?


Turns out I'd just assumed the article I read was linking directly to research: http://blog.pickcrew.com/reading-retention/.

And here's a more detailed article that they were referencing, two steps removed (haven't read it myself): http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-scre....




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