Results published in a recent article on scientificamerica.com revealed that before 1992, most studies concluded that people read slower, less accurately and less comprehensively on screens than on paper. Scientific research in the 1990s has since found that although paper is preferred, e-reading has become more popular as it often summarises books into fun fact and easy to read short passages.
In a study published in January 2013, Anne Mangen asked 72 10th-grade students of a similar reading ability to study one narrative and one expository text, each about 1500 words in length. Half read the texts on paper and the other half read them in pdf files on computers. Students who read the texts on computers performed worse than students who read on paper.
The idea that many of the children that are now in the education system will only have known a world which has technology surrounding them, has lead to the development of this card game that summarises long novels to a readable amount; something the online world provides. The act in matching the cards will be most suitable for the kinaesthetic learner, those who learn by 'doing', something that the online revision tools do not provide. There are many revision summaries available online, but the physical
The physicality of the pack of cards is similar to that of a cassette tape compared to the music that we now access on the internet. Many people admit to enjoying the process of inserting the physical tape and playing the music, rather than just pressing play on the computer. This is reflected in the concept of having the summaries printed out into sort sentences and then having the opportunity to match with the author's names adds to the process that helps people to remember what they are reading.
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