I don't want to overshadow the general point, because I think it has some merit, but one problem I had with the article was the quote, "If I read 10 or 15 inter

I don't want to overshadow the general point, because I think it has some merit, but one problem I had with the article was the quote, "If I read 10 or 15 interesting articles on different subjects in a row, what’s left of it an hour later? And how substantial can one Internet article really be? Books in comparison seem to have brought me much more." That may be true (it's going to come down to each person individually), but he shouldn't be comparing 10 or 15 articles in an hour (you can probably read more than that) to a book. A book probably takes you at least 5 hours to read. If you read 20 articles an hour, that's equivalent to reading 100 articles. So the real question is, does a book bring you "more" (however you personally want to define it) than 100 articles (or more) from a place like hacker news?