The Future of Reading. Endangered!

[ChrisC]

I have for myself, turning the computer off for a few days helps me to
breeze through books. However, when it's on, hardly a chapter or two
ever get read.

This article is interesting as I have felt the same. I need to turn
the computer off if I want to do some serious reading.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

How has the internet effected your reading time/habits?

[CymTyr]

"ChrisC" <chri...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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Very interesting article. I will be the first to admit that I spend a great
deal of time on the computer and with it, the internet. I find that I don't
read nearly the amount of time I used to read, and in fact most of my
reading is done in the bathroom.

I am sad about this, but I do little to change it. I have a collection of
books I've bought recently and never read. I have the Lord of the Rings
series waiting to be read, I'm partway through The Golden Compass and have 2
more books in that series to read after that, and I also have The Sword of
Shannara series to read, as well as Duma Key.

So you could say the reason I don't read so much has nothing to do with not
having good books, because in my opinion I have some great ones just begging
for me to read them. The internet is catastrophic when it comes to reading
habits, or lack thereof. As the article pointed out, it can turn people who
used to spend a great deal of time reading into people who hardly touch
books at all.

I still love books. I love the smell of a new book, in fact. But I find it
hard to commit the time to reading them, not so much from browsing random
internet articles, but moreso from the online games that I play.

-Tim