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Information, 2020 Nowadays, with the growing importance of providing digital services, public libraries offer a wide range of e-books. However, current studies show that reading preferences vary across countries, and identifying e-book demand is therefore difficult.
Viktor Prokop, Jan Stejskal
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PLoS ONE, 2020 The end of deep reading is a commonplace in public debates, whenever societies talk about youth, books, and the digital age. In contrast to this, we show for the first time and in detail, how intensively young readers write and comment literary texts at ...
Federico Pianzola +2 more
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Revisiting the relevance of traditional genres: a network analysis of fiction readers' preferences [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 We investigate how well traditional fiction genres like Fantasy, Thriller, and Literature represent readers' preferences. Using user data from Goodreads we construct a book network where two books are strongly linked if the same people tend to read or ...
Taom Sakal, Stephen R. Proulx
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Why More Text is (Often) Better: Themes from Reader Preferences for Integration of Charts and Text [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2022 Given a choice between charts with minimal text and those with copious textual annotations, participants in a study (Stokes et al.) tended to prefer the charts with more text. This paper examines the qualitative responses of the participants' preferences
Chase Stokes, Marti A. Hearst
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Coopetition Relationships between Online Shared Bookstores and Libraries based on Readers’ Choice of Borrowing Sources [PDF]
Journal of Library and Information Studies, 2023 To provide diverse book lending channels and services to the public and to guide healthy competition in library industry, this paper discusses the coopetition relationship between online shared bookstores and libraries from the perspective of readers ...
Lu-Sha Wang
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Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023 Reading motivation has been extensively studied in online reading settings. However, little is known about what makes people want to read fiction online, especially in a foreign-language setting.
Winda Setia Sari +2 more
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European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020 This study aims at exploring gender differences in text-type-specific reading competences via readers’ gender-specific reading preferences. Women were expected to read more often for the sake of entertainment (entertainment preference), whereas men were ...
K. Thums, Cordula Artelt, Ilka Wolter
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Readers’ preferences of Irkutsk residents in late of XIX–early XX centuries [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020 The article deals with the problem of the reader and reading among the urban population, which is little studied in Russian history. Based on the analysis of the materials of the state archive of the Irkutsk region, the author characterizes the ...
M. V. Zhuravleva
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Self-mention and engagement mechanisms of (negative) evaluation in linguistics academic reviews: A diachronic insight [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2023 The paper is a small-scale exploratory study of self-mention and engagement markers in the reviews published in a reputable Serbian academic journal South Slavic Philologist during the 1920s.
Vučićević Ana Lj. +1 more
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Screen Magnification for Readers with Low Vision: A Study on Usability and Performance
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2023 We present a study with 20 participants with low vision who operated two types of screen magnification (lens and full) on a laptop computer to read two types of document (text and web page). Our purposes were to comparatively assess the two magnification
Meini Tang +3 more
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