I still say that you can't engage a text online in the same ways you can in print. When it's just you and the text in a coffeehouse you've got no Google to turn

I still say that you can't engage a text online in the same ways you can in print. When it's just you and the text in a coffeehouse you've got no Google to turn to. There's no scrolling to the comments to get the gist of the article. In short, you have to do the work yourself. When it comes to the hard ideas he is talking about, struggling through unaided until you finally grasp the concept is one of the best ways to internalize the real guts of the concept in the text. There's also the physical aspect of taking notes in the margins and being able to remember content by it's location on the page or how far into the text it is. A whole host of spatial considerations that electronic media can't replicate in the same way. *Edit for typo.