It's a fine line to draw... On the one hand, I feel like I have some form of "new information addiction". Even my dad, who is 70, has pretty aggressive surfin

It's a fine line to draw... On the one hand, I feel like I have some form of "new information addiction". Even my dad, who is 70, has pretty aggressive surfing habits. On the other hand, I skimmed books back in the 90's, before I surfed the web daily. (There was much less "new" high quality information online then.) I would check out 5 books at a time from the library, and read the best one, and skim the rest. I also studied for my AP History test in exactly one day by skimming, and got a great score. IIRC, I read the first and last sentence of every chapter in a 200 page book in one night. It's not a bad way to read if you're looking for the high level structure of stories and arguments. Many authors are in love with their own prose, and it is too long. My blog looks dense but I've gotten good feedback on it, mostly because I use skimmable headings, and delete words from sentences, so it's short and dense: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/ http://www.oilshell.org/blog/