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The purpose of this study was to investigate distinctive factors when using digital literature against traditional textual literature as well as students' view of reading in digital form to-wards traditional written text. The theoretical starting points for learning in this study are based on the pragmatic and socio-cultural perspective. The results reported in this study have been derived from the data collection methods observation, questionnaire and a reading com-prehension test. The study is performed in four grade 3 classes. The results of this study indi-cates that the participating pupils' attitudes are more favourable to traditional reading than to reading with digital reading media. / Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka särskiljande faktorer vid nyttjande av digital littera-tur gentemot traditionell textad litteratur samt elever syn på läsande i digital form gentemot traditionell skriven text. De teoretiska utgångspunkterna för lärande i studien, utgår från de pragmatiska samt sociokulturella perspektiven. De resultat som redovisas i studien har utkom-mit från datainsamlingsmetoderna observation, enkät samt ett läsförståelsetest. Studien är ut-förd i fyra årskurs 3 klasser. Resultaten av denna studie pekar på att de deltagande elevernas attityder är mer gynnsamma mot traditionell läsande än mot läsning med digitalt läsmedia.

The objective of this thesis is to clarify the term efective reading and what belongs to this topic, also to explore how the meaning of this term changes in the field of the electronic documents. This work also examines the reader's options of working with text and his view in this matter. Eye movements are analysed in first chapter. The term efective reading and its related concepts are analysed in chapter two. Third chapter is dealing with efective screen reading and characteristics of electronic texts. The possibilities of user work with texts on e- book readers and software e-book readers are examined in fourth chapter. Fifth chapter assesses online e-book readers. Questionnaire survey concerning reading of electronic documents is evaluated in chapter six.