Mauboussin: Mental recall is significantly better with physical books than e-readers
Michael Mauboussin · #1 Michael Mauboussin: When To Trust Your Gut · Apr 28, 2015 · at 4:29
Investor and author Michael Mauboussin discusses his reading habits and spatial memory recall with host Shane Parrish.
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“As for reading and I don't know if this is a generational thing, but I still prefer physical books to reading on the Kindle, so I might read on the Kindle on a plane or something, but usually I'll do shorter reads versus long reads, but mostly I like physical books probably it's because of habit, but I also like to write in them from time to time, but the most important thing for me is I feel like I can remember, I actually don't have that good a memory of what I read, But I do tend to remember where things are in books physically. So I sort of know, like, this is something that was interesting. It was a passage on the left page about in the middle, you know. So I can go back and find it that way. So for some reason, my own mental recall tends to do much better with, ah, physical, ah, assets than it does with, ah, electronic.”
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