Why paper books beat screens for learning (backed by research)

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Aug 21, 202600:06:10Education

I have somewhere between 60 and 70 shelves of books in this house, well over a thousand of them, in several languages, and I have finally started cataloguing the lot. Going through them reminded me why paper still matter...

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