Reading on your smartphone lowers reading comprehension, study finds

I read books on my kindle paperwhite, not on my phone.

I limit my electronic reading to things that essentially don't matter to me (I call them junk food reading) and I mostly do it while waiting somewhere or on the treadmill...

This doesn’t surprise me Lt Col Charlie Brown. In addition, psychological research has shown there are addictive properties to excessive use of phones, tablets, and other devices used to connect to the internet. I am definitely glad I grew up without technology and the internet! I have a library of books and I usually just read short articles on my phone. Kids today don’t know how to research anything! They Google everything and many people today don’t know how to read a map or even own one!