“When Ziming Liu, a professor at San Jose State University whose research centers on digital reading and the use of e-books, conducted a review of studies that compared print and digital reading experiences, supplementing their conclusions with his own research, he found that several things had changed. On screen, people tended to browse and scan, to look for keywords, and to read in a less linear, more selective fashion. On the page, they tended to concentrate more on following the text. Skimming, Liu concluded, had become the new reading: the more we read online, the more likely we were to move quickly, without stopping to ponder any one thought.”

This encapsulates one of the reasons that I want to write Albion Considered. I do pretty much all of my non-fiction reading online. Deciding that I'm going to post a comment about an article forces me to think about what it is that I've read, rather than jumping quickly onto the next thing in my 'to-read' list.