I think this topic needs some explanation for older people that do not believe people that use the web extensively actually read. Because people scan a page ra

I think this topic needs some explanation for older people that do not believe people that use the web extensively actually read. Because people scan a page rather than read every word in the order the author thought best does not devalue what is going on. Say you were interested in WW2 history you could read Stalingrad by Antony Beevor to then become an expert on that aspect of the war. Or you could research the topic online going across many online sources to answer your own questions. This latter approach where no book is read from cover to cover has a lot of merit. However, some older people might call this not reading. To them this would be grazing any old nonsense written online. We need to challenge these entrenched attitudes. It is totally okay to study online flitting about between content and sources. Reading online is different to reading books and we should not be concerned with how people do this in order to make condescending remarks.