Scanning and skimming is good, most of the time. It means you are taking an active role in deciding what parts of a document are relevant to your purpose. In t

Scanning and skimming is good, most of the time. It means you are taking an active role in deciding what parts of a document are relevant to your purpose. In the bad old days, you had fewer alternatives and higher switching costs, so you just read what was in front I you. With the internet, the next best alternative is so available and so good that you might as well spend some time browsing and quickly discarding the fluff so you can find the really good stuff. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_learning http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_learning