title: Reading and skimming from computer screens and books: The paperless office revisited? creator: Muter, Paul creator: Maurutto, Paula subject: Applied Cognitive Psychology subject: Cognitive Psychology description: Past research has demonstrated that reading efficiency is lower from standard computer displays of the 1980s than from paper. In the present experiments, subjects read or skimmed stories, sometimes from a high-quality CRT (cathode ray tube) and sometimes from a book. Skimming was 41% slower from the CRTs than from the book. Possible reasons for this finding are discussed. Reading speed and comprehension were equivalent for the high-quality CRTs and the book. The paperless office may be imminent after all. date: 1991 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/754/1/pmuter2.htm identifier: Muter, Paul and Maurutto, Paula (1991) Reading and skimming from computer screens and books: The paperless office revisited? [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/754/