Online reading and thought

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Linked via Writing for the Web, two fascinating articles on how we read online and how it affects our very thought processes:

Lazy Bastards: How we read online
Is Google making us stupid?

I’ll confess that I find myself skimming far more these days than I ever did 8 years ago, when I first had steady access to the web. I used to read everything online in great detail, now I find it a chore. I find myself wanting  to print all articles that I want to “remember”, which isn’t always practical since there is so much good and interesting content released on an almost daily basis and ink is a luxury these days.

Perhaps we need a new school of reading.

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