ABSTRACT
Taken in isolation, the empirical literature on reading from screens versus paper is not particularly helpful to a designer or design team concerned with developing an electronic text application. The classification of the empirical literature provided in the previous chapter is an attempt to afford better conceptualization of the relevant issues and experimental findings but it suffers from the problems inherent in the literature itself: the absence of a suitable descriptive framework of the reader that would enable those concerned with electronic text to derive guidance for specific design applications.
