I actually do the same annoying habit I’m trying to break my girlfriend of right now. When she reads a book she opens it and starts reading wherever. It wouldn’t be a problem except she always ends up missing the greater point that only comes together when you read a book from start to finish. Along with most other people when I read an article on the Internet I rarely read the entire thing. I don’t even usually click the links, so I end up taking everything I read online with a huge grain of salt.
Recently Google released FastFlip, an easy way of flipping through articles data mined from news sources. This is a useful tool but allows users to over-embellish their already-bad compulsive eHabits. On the other side of the fence this service brings a new audience to news articles these readers would never spend the time to find and read in a newspaper. (or even online)
One study found Internet readers have a high probability of reading books, and while it says nothing about newspapers we can only assume some of these readers want something physical to hold and turn to newspapers at least part-time. Unfortunately when I read articles a lot of the time there is too much “fluff” talk to keep me interested. When I want to read about something I want to only read about the subject matter and not the author’s opinion unless they have something insightful to say. This is rare, so much of the time I don’t read the entire article.
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