A couple of anecdotes, for what they're worth. - I find that if I only consume digital media, over time my ability to deep-dive into complex works of fiction o

A couple of anecdotes, for what they're worth. - I find that if I only consume digital media, over time my ability to deep-dive into complex works of fiction or non-fiction diminishes. My attention span gets very short. I want to "pop off" and go consume something else. It takes a dedicated bit of effort to switch back into real reading mode - From looking at my server logs, the average web consumer doesn't get 99% of whatever you put on the page. People used to say you should design your page so that somebody driving by in a car could read and understand it. I would go so far as to design it so that a drunken one-eyed near-sighted person who is in an argument with their SO could read and understand it while going by at 100 mph. The numbers are not pretty. - Multi-purpose devices have but one goal: to get you to consume more material. The vendors that make them do not care whether you read that new downloaded book for 5 minutes or 5 hours. They only care that you downloaded it. Books on the other hand? People who make those want you to consume one particular work and then share/talk about it. With a book, you and the author are in this thing together. With a multi-media reader, you're just a demographic