Monday, August 08, 2011

Scribble, scribble, scribble ...

... Book Review: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction - WSJ.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Mr. Jacobs's account of attention loss in the wake of technological gain will feel familiar to readers of the constant lamentations about the Internet's effects on our brains. Yet he avoids the truisms that undermine so many jeremiads against the digital age. "It's not reasonable to think of technology—in the usual vaguely pejorative meaning of that term—as the enemy of reading," he asserts, explaining that his Kindle alleviated his feelings of distraction rather than increasing them.

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