Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】With the coming of the digital age, the way of reading has also changed, and there is controversy over whether the effect of digital reading or paper reading is better.【Method/process】48 domestic and foreign literatures related to dig⁃ ital reading effects in the past ten years was selected for meta-analysis in this study. At the same time, the experimenter's gender, school period, region, and text length and types were regarded as the moderator variables.【Result/conclusion】There is no significant difference in reading effects between digital reading and paper reading on the whole. From the perspective of gender, the effects of digi⁃ tal reading and paper reading are not significant for different readers; from the perspective of school levels, the effects of paper reading are slightly better to the kindergarten, middle school, and university students, but the opposite is the case at the elementary school stage; from a regional perspective, readers in mainland China perform better on paper reading, while those in TAIWAN region and abroad are opposite; from the perspective of text length, more than 1,000 words have better paper-based reading effects; from the per⁃ spective of text types, when reading literary texts, the digital reading effects are slightly better, while the informational texts are the op⁃ posite.【Innovation/limitation】This study uses meta-analysis to analyze the difference between digital reading effect and paper reading effect. It not only analyzes the moderated effect of the characteristics of the experimental object, but also analyzes the moderated effect of the text characteristics.