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Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
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When reading is reduced to meaning only the acquisition of information, it is no surprise to find that minds are impoverished.
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As a lifelong reader, writer and teacher, and now a technological neophyte, I am pleased to be able to find the information I need so easily and quickly on the Internet rather than spending hours in library stacks as I used to do.
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Very interesting discussion about new ways of reading, online vs offline.

Article here.