The
Huffington Post has a column here comparing the experience of reading a regular book
with reading an e-book. The author calls
one stored data and one flows of data.
He feels we rush through e-books and don’t read them in as thoughtful a
manner. His column is a bit confusing.
I
think the big difference is between quick reads, such as articles, opinion
pieces, and short stories and narratives, and longer, developed pieces of
writing. A novel with a complicated tone
and many different characters and plot elements needs a more advanced, sophisticated
reader, than an Internet article.
I am
optimistic about the e-readers. For the
first time, people have instant access to thousands (millions?) of books. I am hopeful that kids will start reading
more, now that they can instantly download all of the books in a series they
like, for example. This kind of avid
reading is what develops excellent students by high school. I taught high school English for 37 years,
and my top students were always my avid readers.
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