Purpose – This study attempts to investigate reading behavior in the digital environment by analyzing how people …'s reading behavior has changed over the past ten years. Design/methodology/approach – Survey and analysis methods are employed …. Findings – With an increasing amount of time spent reading electronic documents, a screen‐based reading behavior is emerging …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore gender differences in the online reading environment. Design … paper as a reading medium than male readers, whereas male readers exhibit a greater degree of satisfaction with online … reading than females. Additionally, males and females differ significantly on the dimension of selective reading and sustained …

, and access cues – to make the reading of medium‐to‐long texts more productive. The experiments reported in this paper aim … settings and should address selective reading and information navigation as well as text recall. SARA, a recent comprehensive … revealing studies of QuikScan. Practical implications – QuikScan and other innovations that improve the reading experience can …

fruitfully be regarded as documentary practices which include document work such as reading, rather than instances of information … within LIS, and function as a bridge between different subfields such as reading studies and documentary practices. Research … which it is possible to explore the social significance of core LIS concerns such as reading, literacy, and document work …

Purpose This conceptual paper relates disparate evidence on the factors influencing reading format choice and … authors propose a reading event analysis model (REAM) to help guide practitioners and scholars through a consideration of … reading and/or learning objectives of a reader in a given reading event in the current technological era. Findings The …

Purpose The prevalence of digital reading and the widespread use of social media among young people demands systematic … exploration of the effects of social media addiction on students' reading practice. This paper aims to explore the effects of … social media addiction on reading preferences, in-depth reading and sustained attention. Design/methodology/approach Survey …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore the influence of books, libraries and reading on the experience of … how books, libraries and reading influence the experience of time, within a prison environment. Findings Prisoners … are motivated to use books, libraries and reading to pass time. They are using books, libraries and reading to assist in …

Purpose Digital distraction is a common phenomenon in e-reading contexts, and it is worth exploring in depth from the … perspectives of information (digital content), users (readers) and technology (digital reading medium). Since screen reading has … close links with multitasking and potential distraction, any investigation of reading in the digital environment must factor …