I like print, hate lugging books around. the Gutenberg project continues to be my favorite source of ebooks. For some reason I can't get enough of that manual of surgery. Plus, I can read it on my beloved blackberry while on the train. So it means one less thing for me to carry. I can't remember not being impatient and impetuous, so if the internet made me this way, who can tell. I mean, I might have honest to goodness have written a full story if I ever had the patience for it.
I am actually taking a break from reading The Hobbit on the laptop, at the moment. So it's funny that I read this now. I definitely have a shorter attention span than I did. Can't blame the internet entirely though, people were saying the same thing about television. When I was in college I would spend hours in the library reading. But now, I just don't have the whim as there is so much material at my fingertips. In fact, there is more content everytime I type. It's very self gratifying. And not in that icky way either.
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Date: 2008-08-22 12:59 pm (UTC)I am actually taking a break from reading The Hobbit on the laptop, at the moment. So it's funny that I read this now. I definitely have a shorter attention span than I did. Can't blame the internet entirely though, people were saying the same thing about television. When I was in college I would spend hours in the library reading. But now, I just don't have the whim as there is so much material at my fingertips. In fact, there is more content everytime I type. It's very self gratifying. And not in that icky way either.