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Essay / The Importance of Digital Reading - 537
With the advancement of digital technology and the growth of web resources, people are increasingly reading electronic documents on their computers through the Internet and mobile operators. Liu (2008) studied people's digital reading behavior over a ten-year period using questionnaire surveys. Based on the increasing time spent reading electronic documents, he proposed the emergence of "screen reading" behavior, characterized by more time spent browsing and scanning, detecting words keys, one-off reading, non-linear reading and more selective reading. less time is spent on extensive reading and focused reading – a decrease in sustained attention has also been noted. Annotating and highlighting while reading is a common activity in the print environment, but this traditional model has not yet migrated to the digital environment. Although the study proposed the emergence of digital reading, other details about digital reading and various types of digital resources were not discussed. Tenopir, King, and Wu have conducted numerous longitudinal investigations of science communication and...