With the growing popularity of e-readers such as Kindle, literary reading is increasingly digitized. The transition from paper-based to screen-based literature invites theoretical and empirical reconsiderations of a number of basic research questions which might at first glance seem trivial: does it make a difference for aspects of the literary reading experience if the text is read on a screen-based device rather than on paper? Findings from a recent experiment suggest that affordances of surf tablets such as iPad might negatively affect emotional aspects of reading. Referring to empirical research on emotional aspects of literary reading, the article aims to demonstrate the usefulness of more interdisciplinary approaches in studies of the literary reading experience.

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文学阅读的数字化

随着Kindle等电子阅读器的日益普及，文学阅读也日益数字化。从基于纸张的文学到基于屏幕的文学的转变引发了对许多基本研究问题的理论和实证重新考虑，这些问题乍一看似乎微不足道：如果在文本上阅读文本，是否会对文学阅读体验的各个方面产生影响？基于屏幕的设备而不是纸上？最近的一项实验结果表明，iPad 等冲浪平板电脑的可供性可能会对阅读的情感方面产生负面影响。参考文学阅读情感方面的实证研究，本文旨在证明更多跨学科方法在文学阅读体验研究中的有用性。